Philip Neri: Episode Three
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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🗺️ Philip Neri - Episode Three: The New Socrates
Rome. 1544. Kneeling in the catacombs, Philip feels his heart continuing to expand! He calls out in pain to the Lord, begging for this strange supernatural favor to stop. When he recovers, Philip and his friends go looking for souls in an expected place!
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Philip Neri’s story exemplifies his true humility, charity, and joy. In 1500s Rome, Philip worked as a tutor, while selflessly teaching and providing for the poor. His wit and humor drew countless souls to Christ, showing that real sanctity isn’t stuffy, but cheerful. Philip’s life teaches lessons of cheerfulness, trust in God’s will, and selfless service.
This series contains moments of intensity and danger. Philip Neri’s autopsy is described. Voices are raised in arguments. A thief threatens Philip and a crowd in Rome with violence. Characters mock Philip for his poverty and bizarre way of life. Philip’s intense experience of having his heart expanded by the Holy Spirit is portrayed.
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| 0:00.0 | Rome, 1544. |
| 0:05.6 | Kneeling in the catacombs, Philip feels his heart continuing to expand. |
| 0:10.8 | He calls out in pain to the Lord begging for this strange supernatural favor to stop. |
| 0:17.1 | When he recovers, Philip and his friends go looking for souls in an expected place. |
| 0:26.9 | The Saints. Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:31.9 | Philip Neri. |
| 0:33.6 | Episode 3, The New Socrates. |
| 0:37.3 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the saintspodcast.com. |
| 0:50.6 | Philip's heart was inflamed with heat when the Holy Spirit entered his body as a ball of fire. |
| 0:57.2 | After a while, his heart stopped expanding, and he began to recover slowly. |
| 1:02.4 | Antonio, you expect me to believe Neri swallowed a ball of fire, and it expanded his heart? |
| 1:10.0 | Doctor, you are the one who called it a miracle. You saw how |
| 1:14.4 | his heart enlarged. I saw it, yes. Do I understand it? No. Philip's heart remained at a higher |
| 1:24.3 | temperature. His skin was slightly swollen. Managing his body temperature was |
| 1:29.6 | difficult, but despite his physical suffering, he managed his ministry with joy. Rome's inhabitants |
| 1:37.2 | were no longer really living as Christians. Philip went out to meet them where they were and |
| 1:43.0 | talked with them. He would bring them to volunteer in this they were and talked with them. |
| 1:49.4 | He would bring them to volunteer in this very hospital or to pray in St. Mary Major. |
| 1:57.0 | He was like a new kind of Socrates, gathering young converts in the Pope City. |
| 1:59.5 | Philip! |
| 2:01.4 | Pietro! You startled me. I've been looking all over for you,ro. You startled me. |
| 2:03.6 | I've been looking all over for you, Philip. |
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