Our Lady of Champion: Episode Five
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.8 • 648 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
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🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Five: The Great Fire
Robinsonville, 1871. The Wisconsin summer is hot and dry with record breaking winds - the perfect conditions for wildfires. But fire isn’t the only danger facing Adele's new school.
Lies and gossip have spread more quickly than the flames, and have reached the ears of Green Bay’s bishop. If the fires don’t destroy Adele's work, hateful slander just might.
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On the frontiers of Wisconsin, Adele Brise’s life reveals the quiet strength of faith, humility, and perseverance. In answering Our Lady’s call to teach the faith, she shows how trust in God, humble service, and steadfast love can transform hearts - and places - to God’s love.
This series contains moments of intensity. Voices are raised in arguments. Adele meets with gossip, hostility, and criticism in her mission of teaching catechism. A child is injured in a wagon accident. The Brise family struggles with the dangers of frontier life. Adele Brise is falsely accused of giving alcohol to children at a church festival. There are threats of danger due to a wildfire.
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| 0:00.0 | Robinsonville, 1871. The Wisconsin summer is hot and dry with record-breaking winds, the perfect |
| 0:09.9 | conditions for wildfires. But fire isn't the only danger facing Adele's new school. Lies and gossip |
| 0:17.9 | have spread more quickly than the flames and have reached the ears of Green Bay's bishop. |
| 0:23.4 | If the fires don't destroy Adele's work, |
| 0:26.5 | hateful slander just might. |
| 0:35.1 | The Saints. |
| 0:36.9 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. Our Lady of Champion. The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:39.8 | Our Lady of Champion. |
| 0:41.9 | Episode 5, The Great Fire. |
| 0:45.3 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:52.3 | Our sponsor, Colby Academy, values serving the many needs of their students. |
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| 1:18.9 | It has come to my attention that the religious festival on the feast of the assumption in Bay Settlement became a raucous revelry, showcasing man's deep vices, |
| 1:26.0 | particularly his inclination to strong drink. |
| 1:30.0 | This happened under your charge, and I hold you responsible. |
| 1:35.5 | I have heard from several faithful Catholics in Bay Settlement |
| 1:39.2 | who are concerned by how you are spreading rumors of alleged visions you saw and indoctrinating children with these stories. |
| 1:49.0 | On these grounds, I order you to close St. Mary's Academy immediately. |
| 1:55.0 | Dismiss the children, lock the school and chapel, and bring me the keys. |
| 2:07.7 | Thank you for your cooperation, sincerely, Bishop Melcher. |
| 2:10.1 | Bring him the keys. |
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