Episode Three: Saint Helena
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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🗺️ Lent with the Saints - Episode Three: Saint Helena
In this episode, Kiley teaches us about the Stations of the Cross, and we’ll listen to the story of Saint Helena.
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| 0:00.0 | Lend with the Saints from the Mary Bag from the Mary Beggers. Today I want to tell you about |
| 0:33.5 | St. Helena's quest to discover Jesus' cross. Does the church you go to have the |
| 0:39.2 | stations of the cross? I bet it does. You might have noticed them on the walls of the church |
| 0:44.7 | up and down the aisles. They might be paintings, carvings, or statues hanging on the walls. |
| 0:50.6 | They tell the story of the day Jesus carried the cross and was crucified. |
| 0:55.0 | Have you noticed them before? |
| 0:57.0 | Well, on Fridays in Lent, the church has a special prayer service called the Stations of the Cross. |
| 1:03.0 | It's a time for us to walk with Jesus as he carries the cross, to think about what Jesus did for us. |
| 1:09.0 | Jesus' cross was very heavy. It was made out of rough wood, |
| 1:12.9 | and it was so big, he needed the help of Simon of Cyrene to carry it through the streets of |
| 1:18.2 | Jerusalem and out of the city, up to the hill of Calvary. It was a long and hard walk, but Jesus took |
| 1:25.7 | every step out of love for us, for you and for me. |
| 1:30.2 | Jesus did this because he wants to take everything hard on himself. He wants to take all |
| 1:35.0 | our sadness and loneliness and transform it into Easter joy. Now, Jesus carried his cross |
| 1:41.6 | over 2,000 years ago, a very long time ago. |
| 1:45.0 | But did you know that today, we still have the true cross that Jesus died on? |
| 1:50.0 | That's right. |
| 1:51.0 | A long time ago, a powerful queen named Helena wanted to find the very cross Jesus carried. |
| 1:58.0 | She loved Jesus so much, she wanted to see the places he walked |
| 2:02.7 | on earth and touched the cross he died on. When Helena began this quest, she was already a grandmother. |
| 2:25.7 | Maybe even older than your grandmother. |
| 2:28.2 | Her son, Emperor Constantine, gave her a private army to command |
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