Saint Augustine: Episode One
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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North Africa. 370 A.D. The Roman city of Thagaste is home to a remarkable but restless sixteen year old boy. Torn between his intense desires and his brilliant mind, he has become a slave to his passions. His mother prays for his conversion, but can making bad choices and getting into trouble ever be a pathway to God? This is the story of Augustine.
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Saint Augustine teaches us lessons of humility, perseverance, and the transformative power of grace. Despite his early years spent in sensual pursuits and intellectual pride, his restless heart yearned for truth. His mother’s unwavering prayers and his own searching spirit ultimately led him to surrender in humility to God’s call. In his moment of conversion, Augustine’s story reminds us that no soul is beyond redemption and that true wisdom begins in humility before God.
This series contains moments of intensity and fear. Augustine struggles with his passionate nature and against carnal pleasures. He is depicted in a non-Christian relationship, with their child. A gladiator fight can be overheard. Voices are raised in argument. A character dies of illness. A boy is separated from his mother. A government persecution of the church is portrayed.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming this Lent from the Merry Beggers, a brand new series for younger listeners. |
| 0:06.5 | Lent with the Saints. |
| 0:08.7 | Each day this Lent, discover the men and women who gave their hearts to God, |
| 0:14.2 | the children who leapt into the great adventure of faith, |
| 0:17.6 | and, along with our host, Kylie Lawrence, learn what it truly means to become friends |
| 0:22.7 | with Jesus. Listen today and sign up for free at lentwithesaints.com. North Africa, 370 AD, the Roman city of Tegoste is home to a remarkable but restless 16-year-old boy. |
| 0:48.3 | Torn between his intense desires and his brilliant mind, he has become a slave to his passions. His mother prays for his |
| 0:57.2 | conversion, but can making bad choices and getting into trouble ever be a pathway to God? |
| 1:04.9 | This is the story of Augustine. |
| 1:13.1 | The Saints. |
| 1:14.9 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 1:17.8 | St. Augustine. |
| 1:19.7 | Episode 1, The Thrill of Evil. |
| 1:23.2 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the saintspodcast.com. Mow. I'm I long to love you, my God, to have you ever lovelier within me. |
| 1:59.7 | Let me then confess my past wickedness. The wasted youth were in I ran from you |
| 2:05.6 | and sought after all the satisfactions of hell. For with my sixteenth year came a delight of doing evil |
| 2:13.6 | for the thrill of it. Such was my heart, O God. |
| 2:20.3 | Such was my wandering heart. |
| 2:22.3 | ... The |
| 2:37.0 | The Hey, can you see anyone? |
| 2:51.6 | Hush! |
| 2:52.6 | Stop speaking, Quintus, and let me look. What's the |
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