Nicholas Owen: Episode Four
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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🗺️ Nicholas Owen - Episode Four: Jail and Freedom
England. 1594. Roused from their beds and betrayed by the wicked Mr. Franks, Nicholas, Father Gerard and Ralph Sheldon have been arrested by the Queen's agents. Nicholas and Ralph are taken to the infamous prison of Poultry Compter. Will this be the end for Nicholas, and for his courageous mission to hide and protect England's Catholic priests?
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Nicholas Owen’s unbreakable fidelity to the Church gives a timeless witness of faith under persecution. Unwilling to betray his friends, even when they are doing wrong, he generously gives himself up as a sacrifice for others. Nicholas’ ingenuity and obedience to his superiors show his ultimate courage and humility.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity, including raised voices. It portrays imprisonment, coercive interrogation, references to torture, and political violence. There are mentions of characters being tortured on the rack, hanged, and killed. Treason is discussed openly. The final episode includes dialogue about dying for others and depicts a sacrificial act of misdirection that leads to arrest and death.
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| 0:00.0 | England, 1594. |
| 0:05.0 | Roused from their beds and betrayed by the wicked Mr. Franks, |
| 0:10.0 | Nicholas, Father Gerard, and Ralph Sheldon have been arrested by the Queen's agents. |
| 0:15.0 | Nicholas and Ralph are taken to the infamous prison of Poultry Comptor. |
| 0:20.0 | Will this be the end for Nicholas and for his courageous mission |
| 0:24.0 | to hide and protect England's Catholic priests? |
| 0:31.6 | The Saints, Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:36.8 | Nicholas Owen. |
| 0:38.5 | Episode 4. |
| 0:40.0 | Jail and Freedom. |
| 0:41.9 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:47.5 | Our sponsor, Colby Academy, values serving the many needs of their students. |
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| 0:56.6 | Consider a classical Catholic customized education at the saintspodcast.com slash Colby. What do you think they will do to us, Nicholas? |
| 1:21.9 | They'll start by coaxing us and perhaps offer us some rich reward. |
| 1:26.5 | But if it comes to torture, they will bind our wrists with manacles and hoist us some rich reward. But if it comes to torture, |
| 1:28.8 | they will bind our wrists with manacles |
| 1:30.6 | and hoist us to a hook in the ceiling. |
| 1:33.0 | Then let us hang there till we talk. |
| 1:35.1 | But Nicholas, your hernia, |
| 1:37.6 | would your belly withstand attention? |
| 1:39.9 | It's no use thinking about what might happen, Ralph. |
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