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Saints Preserve Us
by Saints Preserve Us
Saints Preserve Us is an irreverent but informative show that chronicles the bizarre lives, often equally bizarre deaths, and posthumous mythologies of Catholic Saints. It's a glorious mash-up of true-life crime documentaries, shocking but true historical exposés, reassuring spiritual feel-goodery, and gory examinations of mankind's exaltations and depravations. Each episode will showcase specific saints examining their lives, the art they've inspired, and the legacies they've left behind. Through the lens of these misfits, martyrs, and messiahs we will also explore themes and topics that are relevant to the culture today including political division, apocalyptic fixation, quests for revenge, women's rights, racial inequality, life, death, and the debate over free will versus determinism. We'll interview members of the clergy, art historians, religious studies professors, theologians, and luminaries from the world of literature and pop culture who can offer insight int
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Saint Patrick
It's the day for the wearing of the green and you would think with names like O'Toole, Kelly and Rogers our hosts would be extremely reverential of the patron Saint of Ireland (and Nigeria) but you would be wrong. Turns out the guy's name was Succat and he wasn't even Irish! Learn more about this...
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Saint Valentine's Day
Saints Preserve Us returns for season two with an exploration of the history of Saint Valentine and how he inspired the modern romantic holiday that is now celebrated in his name. Along the way we learn how he sent the first valentine note ever while in jail waiting to have his head cut off. We...
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Ep. 16 - The End of Ordinary Time with St. Nicholas & Christ the King of the Universe
In this episode we recognize the End of Ordinary Time and the end of Season One of Saints Preserve Us. Along the way we acknowledge The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe and discuss a little celebration that happens around his birth, which was overshadowed this year by our...
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Ep. 15 - Saints Who Performed Abortions With Maeve Callan
On this episode we are joined by Maeve Callan Chair of the Religion Department, Director of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Co-Director of the Interfaith Fellows Program and Professor of Religion at Simpson College in Iowa, and author of The Templars, the Witch, and the Wild Irish, to...
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Ep. 14 - Santa Muerte & Malachy O'More in Folk vs. Canonized Saints
In this episode we apologize for an image of the Blessed Virgin Mary depicted as a skeleton that was posted to our Twitter account on Halloween, and we explore the controversial kerfuffle kicked off by the image around the Mexican cult figure and folk-Catholic, but unofficial, Saint: Santa…
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Ep. 13 - All Hallows & Incorruptible Saints with Elizabeth Harper
On this very special All Hallows Spooky Saint Spectacular, we learn about the Saintly origins of Halloween and dive deep into the mysterious world of incorrupt Saints with writer and photographer Elizabeth Harper of All the Saints You Should Know, who has faced and photographed these Saintly…
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Ep. 12 - The Mysteries of the Rosary with Ian Chillag from Everything is Alive
On today's episode of Saints Preserve Us, we are joined by Ian Chillag, host and producer of the incredible podcast Everything is Alive, to ponder the mysteries of the Holy Rosary. We learn the history and religious significance of these inanimate objects and ask Ian who he would cast to play a...
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EP. 11 - Saint Ursula and The 11,000 Virgins with Eric Huang from Saint Podcast
This week we are joined by the creator and host of Saint Podcast, Eric Huang, to discuss Saint Ursula, a British princess who was killed by the Huns in Cologne Germany on October 21st 383 AD, and who miraculously managed to take 11,000 virgins and one pope down with her. We also learn how Ursula...
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Ep. 10 - Merry Michaelmas!
Since recording this episode on September 29th, Sean, Rosemary, and Christian have been celebrating Michaelmas, the feast of St. Michael the Archangel, for seven days straight, in honor of the seven churches, lined up from Skellig Michael in Ireland to Stella Maris Monastery in Israel, on the...
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Ep. 08 - Pondering Purgatory with Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
On this episode, we move beyond the bloody beheading horrors of last week's show to question the more metaphysical nightmare of Purgatory, the eternal waiting room where people who sinned (but not too mortally) await their souls' slow movement through the afterlife's most mundane bureaucracy. We...
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Ep. 07 - Four Beheadings and a Funeral
In this blood-splattered, gore-soaked episode we learn about the noted masochist and self-harmer Rose of Lima and her power to prevent earthquakes. We also find out why John the Baptist, Saint Sabina, and Saint Seraphima were all beheaded and how the Saints' stories relate to another beheaded...
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EP. 06 - Shakespeare & Saint Robert Southwell with Garrett Armyn
On this episode we are joined by actor Garrett Armyn, fresh off his performance as The Count of Monte Cristo for the Hudson Classical Theater Company, to discuss the surprising connection between English Jesuit martyr Saint Robert Southwell and his cousin William Shakespeare. Garrett performs…
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Ep. 05 - Saint Helena and the Patrons You Need For COVID19
On this week's episode, we go through a laundry list of Saints whose feast days were observed over the past week including Saint Rock and his dog (and saint in his own right) Saint Guinefort. Saint Rock is the patron saint of doctors and contagious diseases so he's a great patron for these…
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Ep. 04 - The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Frances O'Toole
On this very special episode, we learn about the assumption, body and soul, of The Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven and hear why she threw her holy girdle down to the ground on her way up. We speculate on where that sacred relic now resides and discuss how Saint Mary may have been much more than…
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Ep. 03 - Santa Monica with Elizabeth Rodriguez
In this week's episode, we are joined by Tony-nominated actress and Orange Is the New Black star Elizabeth Rodriguez to discuss her role as Saint Monica in the LAByrinth Theater Company's 2005 production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot. The play was written by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed...
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Ep. 02 - Saint Augustine on Free Will vs. Determinism
It would be difficult to overstate Augustine of Hippo’s role in shaping Catholic theology. In this episode, we explore Saint Augustine’s philosophical evolution from a belief in the predestination of the heretical Manichaean sect to his conversion to the True Faith of free will, swayed finally by...
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Ep. 1 - The Greatest Saints of All Time with Father James Martin
In this episode, Rosemary and Sean give their picks for the GOATS or Greatest Of All Time Saints. They also share the stories of some of their less-known personal favorites and Rosemary interviews special-guest Father James Martin, Jesuit priest and author of “My Life with the Saints,” about the...
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Ep. 0 - An Introduction to the Catholic Saints
Your name, your birthday, your nationality, your job, your hobby, each entitles you to the papally prescribed, perpetual, personal protection of a plethora of powerful patrons in paradise. Whatever your problem, a holy host of heavenly helpers is at hand. And you don't even have to be Catholic!…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Saints Preserve Us is an irreverent but informative show that chronicles the bizarre lives, often equally bizarre deaths, and posthumous mythologies of Catholic Saints. It's a glorious mash-up of true-life crime documentaries, shocking but true historical exposés, reassuring spiritual feel-goodery, and gory examinations of mankind's exaltations and depravations.
Each episode will showcase specific saints examining their lives, the art they've inspired, and the legacies they've left behind. Through the lens of these misfits, martyrs, and messiahs we will also explore themes and topics that are relevant to the culture today including political division, apocalyptic fixation, quests for revenge, women's rights, racial inequality, life, death, and the debate over free will versus determinism. We'll interview members of the clergy, art historians, religious studies professors, theologians, and luminaries from the world of literature and pop culture who can offer insight int
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