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🗓️ 1 May 2025
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🏔️ The Saints: Adventures of Faith and Courage
🗺️ Our Lady of Champion - Episode Four: Mary’s Academy
Spring, 1869. Ten years have passed since Adele began teaching the children of the Wisconsin frontier. With Our Lady's help, the settlers have gradually opened up their hearts and homes to Adele. Now she has so many students, she is raising money to build a school for them. But she still faces opposition and anger from powerful forces in town.
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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 | Spring, 1869, 10 years have passed since Adele began teaching the children of the Wisconsin frontier. |
0:09.0 | With our ladies' help, the settlers have gradually opened up their hearts and homes to Adele. |
0:15.0 | Now she has so many students she is raising money to build a school for them. |
0:20.0 | But she still faces opposition and anger |
0:23.0 | from powerful forces in town the saints adventures of faith and courage our lady of champion |
0:37.0 | episode four mary's academy listen to all that of faith and courage. Our Lady of Champion. |
0:40.1 | Episode four, Mary's Academy. |
0:45.4 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
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1:00.9 | slash Colby. |
1:05.7 | Ah, Adel, I'm so proud of you. |
1:11.6 | Teaching and hiking and begging donations. |
1:14.6 | I cannot wait for the schoolroom to be finished. |
1:17.6 | It will feel like Wisconsin is a really civilized place once we have a school. |
1:22.6 | Thank you, Mama. |
1:24.6 | Our lady has given me lots of help, just as she promised. |
1:29.2 | Without Papa to build and your help getting friends to help us, St. Mary's Academy would never have been built. |
1:37.3 | Adele, I'm ready to go. |
1:39.8 | And this is another reason I can't wait for that schoolroom to be finished. |
1:45.0 | You're going to catch your death in this rain. |
1:49.0 | Are you girls sure you have to go on your teaching rounds in this weather? |
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