Vincent de Paul: Episode One
The Saints
The Merry Beggars
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🗓️ 3 November 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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🗺️ Vincent de Paul - Episode One: The Poor Peasant
Southwestern France. 1594. For the peasant farmers of rural France, life is a backbreaking grind of endless work, little food and poor health, made worse by oppressive taxes, expensive wars and the threat of Muslim pirates from North Africa, who enslave the Catholic inhabitants of coastal towns. On his poor family's small plot of land, a young man dreams of a way out of his miserable existence. This is the story of Vincent de Paul.
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Vincent’s perseverance through his suffering exemplifies virtues of hope and fortitude. He listens, forgives, and ultimately dedicates himself to charity and service to those in need. He chooses service over status and risks himself for a former friend. He gains wisdom and spiritual understanding through his experiences and hardships.
This series contains moments of danger and intensity. It depicts captivity, physical violence, pirates, and slavery. There are scenes of battle, imprisonment, and mistreatment, including beatings and harsh conditions in galley prisons. Emotional struggles with poverty, betrayal, and spiritual crisis are present.
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| 0:00.0 | Southwestern France 1594. |
| 0:05.0 | For the peasant farmers of rural France, life is a back-breaking grind of endless work, little food, and poor health, |
| 0:14.0 | made worse by oppressive taxes, expensive wars, and the threat of Muslim pirates who capture and enslave Catholics from French coastal towns. |
| 0:24.9 | On his poor family's small plot of land, a young man dreams of relief from this miserable experience. |
| 0:31.7 | This is the story of Vincent DePaul. |
| 0:39.1 | The Saints. |
| 0:40.3 | Adventures of Faith and Courage. |
| 0:44.1 | Vincent DePaul. |
| 0:45.9 | Episode 1. |
| 0:47.3 | The Poor Peasant. |
| 0:49.4 | Listen to all the episodes and discover new shows at the Saintspodcast.com. |
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| 1:19.8 | This freezing rain never stop. |
| 1:22.7 | The holes in my boots are leaking. |
| 1:25.6 | My toes feel like the frozen rocks. |
| 1:29.3 | Vincent and Bernard, will you're complaining never stop? Bernard, you're the oldest. |
| 1:31.3 | Tuffin up. |
| 1:32.3 | Set a good example. |
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