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🗓️ 3 June 2025
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage
🗺️ Catherine of Siena - Episode Two: The Pope’s Pawn
Siena, Italy. 1375 A.D. Thirteen years have passed since Christ sent Catherine out into the world from her pseudo-monastic life. Now, Catherine's fame as a mystic and miracle worker has spread across Europe. Her spiritual children call her "Mamma", and hang on her every word. With her father dead and her mother now a member of her lay Dominican community, Catherine cares for victims of the plague that rages across Italy. And in France, a pope’s refusal to return to Rome threatens to undermine Church unity.
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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 | Siena, Italy, 1375 AD. |
0:07.0 | 13 years have passed since Christ sent Catherine out into the world from her pseudo monastic life. |
0:14.0 | Now Catherine's fame as a mystic and miracle worker has spread across Europe. |
0:20.0 | Her spiritual children call her mama and hang on her every word. |
0:25.0 | With her father dead and her mother now a member of her lay Dominican community, |
0:29.6 | Catherine cares for victims of the plague that rages across Italy. |
0:33.4 | And in France, the Pope's refusal to return to Rome threatens church unity. |
0:44.9 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
0:49.8 | Catherine of Sienna. |
0:51.9 | Episode 2. The Pope's Pond. |
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1:21.7 | Good morning. Senora Benicasa, I assume? Yes, that's me. |
1:29.4 | Are you here to see Catherine? |
1:30.6 | Yes. |
1:32.7 | My name is Father Raimondo. |
1:36.7 | I am a Dominican friar, and I recently moved to the Priory in Siena. |
1:37.6 | Come in, Father. |
1:40.3 | I'm sure she would be happy to meet with you. |
1:41.7 | She should be back soon. |
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