Franz Jagerstatter: Episode Three
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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🗺️ Franz Jagerstatter - Episode Three: The Garden of Death
1943. Austria. Five years have passed. The German war machine ravages much of Europe, but Saint Radegund has remained peaceful, and Franz and Fani now have three young daughters. With the war escalating, almost everyone they know has sided with Hitler's Nazi Party. In a village transformed, Franz is an unpopular outsider, and his allies are disappearing fast.
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Franz’s story tells the true power of every life to spread God’s love to others. Franz offers his own prison meal to a starving inmate, a grace-filled gesture amid cruelty. Fani’s unwavering faith in her husband, even when the world despises him, radiates hope. Even as two people against their entire world, Franz and Fani remain close to God through each other, giving a true example of sacramental marriage.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. It includes depictions of beatings, imprisonment, and execution by guillotine. Characters undergo interrogation, moral coercion, and physical abuse. Nazi ideology is discussed and condemned. A priest is arrested during Mass, and several scenes portray emotional distress, especially within a young family facing separation and death.
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| 0:00.0 | 1943, Austria. Five years have passed. While the German war machine pushes through Europe, |
| 0:10.0 | St. Rodigan has remained peaceful, and France and Fani have three young daughters. But with the war escalating, almost everyone they know has sided with Hitler's Nazi party. In a country transformed, |
| 0:23.6 | Franz is a lonely outsider, and his allies are disappearing fast. The Saints, Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:39.4 | Franz Yeagerstader. |
| 0:41.1 | Episode 3. |
| 0:42.6 | The Garden of Death. |
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| 1:07.4 | We've been waiting here for hours, friends. Are you sure he's going to see us? |
| 1:12.6 | Patience, funny. The bishop is a busy man. |
| 1:15.6 | You had an appointment. Maybe you shouldn't have come. |
| 1:19.1 | I don't understand why we are even here. |
| 1:21.6 | Who else could answer my questions? |
| 1:24.2 | Why is it so important to you? |
| 1:26.5 | Nazi doctrines on race are incompatible with the faith. |
| 1:29.9 | I want to know our duty as Catholics. |
| 1:32.3 | It's not our war. |
| 1:34.3 | But starting an unprovoked war, a power grab, |
| 1:37.3 | invading sovereign countries, imprisoning your political opponents? |
| 1:41.3 | What's next? |
| 1:42.3 | None of this has anything to do with us. |
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