In times like these, we all need a word of encouragement. From pastor and best-selling author Max

Lukato comes the Max Lucato encouraging Word podcast with over 40 years of ministry and more than

145 million books sold in 50 languages. Max shares the greatest story ever told, the living

savior who brings hope for a lifetime through rich, biblical insight, heartfelt storytelling.

You'll be reminded that God is always near, always for you, and always in you.

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Subscribe now wherever you get your podcast. Welcome to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the history of the

of the popes of Rome and Christian Church.

Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the

popes and Christianity. I'm your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this

journey. Before we get started today, I would like to send a very special thank you out to our latest patrons on patreon.com

forward slash history of the papacy, Vokar at the Antioch level, and Alexander, who is also at the

Antioch level. Thank you so much, Volcar and Alexander, for supporting the history of the papacy on Patreon.

If you would like to support the show, that's a great way to do it.

Speaking of Patreon, I publish occasionally bonus content on Patreon.

To give you a little taste of what you can get on Patreon if you're a member.

Here is some of that bonus content, and I picked two bonus episodes that happen to be on British and Celtic Christianity.

One episode, the first episode, will be on the fall of British Christianity in one specific part of the British Isles, particularly England, what would become England.

And then the episode after that is a little bit of discussion of Brendan the Navigator.

So both of those episodes were originally only available on patreon.com

forward slash history of the papacy.

You can get a little taste of them.

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