Emil Kapaun: Episode One
The Saints
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4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
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🗺️ Emil Kapaun - Episode One: The Soldier Priest
South East Asia. August, 1945. The Second World War has been raging for nearly six years, claiming the lives of more than four hundred thousand American soldiers. A multitude of chaplains has been sent to minister to these men in their dying moments. One of them is a 29-year-old Catholic priest, a Kansas-born farmer’s son who finds himself in the thick of battle. This is the story of Father Emil Kapaun.
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Emil Kapaun truly became Christ to those around him. Serving with joy and abandonment during his military service, he embraced his role as the spiritual father of Pyoktong prison camp with the same virtues. In the face of awful conditions and inhumane treatment, Kapaun gave himself entirely to the service of his brothers, eventually dying as a consequence. His ultimate sacrifice teaches undying lessons of courage, selflessness, and joy.
This series contains moments of extreme danger and intensity, including raised voices. Several battle scenes are portrayed, including severe injuries and deaths. Fr. Kapaun and his companions are captured and forced to march to a prison camp. They are subjected to ideological indoctrination, psychological pressure and difficult conditions in the prison camp. A character contracts dysentery. Fr. Kapaun is seriously injured by a falling rock. Fr. Kapaun undergoes delirium when an injury becomes infected. Fr. Kapaun’s actual death is not portrayed, but is imminent at the end of the series.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Southeast Asia, August 1945. |
| 0:05.0 | The Second World War has been raging for nearly six years, |
| 0:09.0 | claiming the lives of more than 400,000 American soldiers. |
| 0:13.0 | A multitude of chaplains have been sent to minister to these men in their dying moments. |
| 0:19.0 | One of them is a 29-year-old Catholic priest, |
| 0:22.5 | a Kansas-born farmer's son who finds himself in the thick of battle. |
| 0:27.6 | This is the story of Father Amel Kippon. |
| 0:36.5 | The Saints |
| 0:37.7 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:41.4 | Emil Capon |
| 0:42.3 | Episode 1, The Soldier Priest. |
| 0:46.7 | Listen to all the episodes |
| 0:47.9 | and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
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| 1:24.6 | You take a deep breath, soldier. |
| 1:25.8 | This might be unpleasant. |
| 1:29.1 | Now you hold that tourniquet, you hear? |
| 1:29.7 | Yes, sir. |
| 1:31.9 | It should do the trick till medics arrive. |
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