Solanus Casey: Episode One
The Saints
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🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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🗺️ Solanus Casey - Episode One: Seeds and Dreams
Oak Grove, Wisconsin. 1887. Irish immigrant farmers Bernard and Margaret Casey raise their sixteen children on a small plot of land where the work never ends and the profits are few. Now, some poor harvests have them more worried than usual, and it's up to their seventeen-year-old son Barney to help the family to stay alive. This is the story of the man who would become known as Father Solanus Casey.
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Solanus Casey’s journey from heartbreak to holiness is suffused with humility, hope, and a quiet trust in God. Courage is modeled through perseverance. Faith deepens as Solanus learns to listen before speaking, pray before acting, and thank God before receiving. His life affirms that sanctity begins in small, hidden acts of charity.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity. It depicts a near-drowning, a man wielding a knife, a prison setting, and a medical crisis involving potential leg amputation. Characters face rejection, poverty, death, chronic illness, and deep discouragement as they seek God’s will amid hardship.
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| 0:00.0 | Oak Grove, Wisconsin, 1887. |
| 0:05.0 | Irish immigrant farmers, Bernard and Margaret Casey, |
| 0:09.0 | raised their 16 children on a small plot of land |
| 0:12.0 | where the work never ends and the profits are few. |
| 0:16.0 | Now, some poor harvests have them more worried than usual, and it's up to their 17-year-old son, |
| 0:23.2 | Barney, to help the family stay alive. This is the story of the man who would become known |
| 0:29.2 | as Father Salonis Casey. |
| 0:36.2 | The Saints |
| 0:37.3 | Adventures of Faith and Courage Salonis The Saints. |
| 0:40.3 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:42.0 | Salonis Casey. |
| 0:43.6 | Episode 1. |
| 0:45.7 | Dreams and Seeds. |
| 0:50.8 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
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| 1:15.6 | It's a fiery, you know. The fiery pit. Firing pit. |
| 1:18.6 | Help! |
| 1:21.6 | Somebody help me! |
| 1:24.6 | I'm falling into the pyre! |
| 1:26.6 | Oh, Lord! |
| 1:29.3 | Mary! |
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