Voices of the Saints

About Voices of the Saints

Voices of the Saints is a storytelling podcast that brings to life the inspiring journeys of saints, martyrs, and spiritual heroes from Christian history. Drawing from the rich tradition of the Coptic Synaxarium and other hagiographies, each episode immerses listeners in a short, vivid retelling of a saint’s life — from quiet faith to radical sacrifice. Whether you’re seeking spiritual encouragement, learning about church history, or simply drawn to powerful human stories rooted in faith, this podcast is a space to reflect, remember, and be moved. Produced by First Brick Media, Voices of the Saints is where ancient voices echo into the modern world.

Publisher

First Brick Media

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

16 Jul 2025

Latest episode

13 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Sept 2026

   St Ommena Irini - The Nun Who Walked Into A President's Bedroom

   In the 1940s, a fourteen-year-old girl in Upper Egypt is carried in spirit to a convent she's never seen, led there by a soldier who's been dead for over a thousand years. She grows up to become Ommena Irini, Abbess of the Convent of Abu Seifein. She rebuilds a failing community using a manuscript that seemed to appear out of nowhere, comforts a grieving nation after a bus tragedy with a vision of glory, and, by her own account, walks straight into the bedroom of the President of Egypt to sav...

2. 

   15 Aug 2026

   Saint Francis of Assisi | (Part 2) The Man Who Gave It All Away

   He built something out of nothing. Twelve followers became thousands. And then he walked away from the movement he founded — straight into an active war zone, unarmed, expecting to die. What he found instead was a Sultan willing to listen. Picking up where Part One ended, this episode follows Francesco across enemy lines at Damietta, back to an order growing beyond his control, and finally up a mountain called La Verna — where his body would carry wounds that never healed, his eyes would ...

3. 

   15 Aug 2026

   Saint Francis of Assisi | (Part 1) The Man Who Wanted Everything

   A merchant's son. A born performer. A boy who wanted the whole town to say his name. Francesco di Bernardone had everything money could buy in the hill town of Assisi — fine cloth, French songs, a crowd that gathered wherever he did. What he wanted was glory. A knight's glory. The kind sung about in taverns a hundred years later. He rode out to war to get it. He came home in chains instead. What followed was a year in a prison cell, a vision he couldn't shake, and a leper on a road he co...

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

46 ratings

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