Catherine of Siena: Episode Four
The Saints
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🗓️ 5 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Four: Christ’s Scourge
Italy, 1375. Bloody war continues between the Anti-Papal league and the French Papal legates. Rather than seek peace, Pope Gregory escalates the conflict by excommunicating the entire city of Florence. Catherine is on her way to Avignon, accompanied by Lapa and Raimondo, to persuade Gregory to not only seek peace, but to return to Rome.
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Blending courage with charity, Catherine of Siena models the radical pursuit of God - even at the cost of the esteem of the world. Catherine, a mystic, received the stigmata, but is also remembered for a major political achievement: through her intervention, she fought to return the papacy to Rome from Avignon, France. Catherine’s complete trust in God led her to act to restore the papacy to its rightful place at the head of the Church, instead of being merely a political position.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. Bernabo Visconti, an Italian tyrant, forces a representative of the pope to eat the message he was sent to deliver. The Pope is torn between his loyalties to his father and his duties to the Church. Catherine experiences intense visions, often collapsing in a mystical ecstasy. It is during one of these visions that she receives the stigmata. Bernabo Visconti threatens several characters. Characters are shown drinking after a successful battle. Bernabo Visconti mocks the idea of excommunication.
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| 0:00.0 | Italy, 1375 AD. |
| 0:04.5 | Bloody war continues between the Anti-Papel League and the Pope's supporters in France. |
| 0:10.4 | But rather than seek peace, Pope Gregory escalates the conflict by excommunicating the entire |
| 0:16.4 | city of Florence. |
| 0:18.7 | Meanwhile, Catherine is on her way to Avignon to persuade Gregory to not only seek peace, |
| 0:24.2 | but to return to Rome. |
| 0:32.1 | The Saints. |
| 0:34.1 | Adventures of Faith and Courage |
| 0:36.4 | Catherine of Sienna. |
| 0:39.1 | Episode 4. |
| 0:40.5 | Christ's Scourge. |
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| 1:09.4 | Mama Catherine, there's Avignon, just upriver beyond the next bend. |
| 1:14.3 | Father Raimondo, we must win over Pope Gregory, or there will be great losses in the church. |
| 1:20.2 | I understand. |
| 1:21.6 | Has the Holy Father chosen his cardinals? |
| 1:24.4 | Yes. |
| 1:25.2 | Go on. Where are they from? |
| 1:27.3 | Nine from Avignon. |
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