Saints & Sinners
History. Faith. Fire. Saints & Sinners is where faith meets fire, and history comes alive. Each short, cinematic episode reveals the heroes, heretics, martyrs, and miracles that shaped the Church — and the world. This isn't your grandmothers saints stories, it's where miracles collide with madness, and grace conquers sin. Saints rise. Sinners fall. History bears witness.
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A battlefield buried in dust. A nation splintering under the weight of defeat. And then—when hope was spent—a rider appeared.
No banner. No bloodline. No name.
Some said the ground shook beneath his horse. Others swore the war turned the moment he charged. Was he flesh and blood… or something born from desperation and faith?
This episode follows the rise of a legend forged where steel meets belief—where stories become weapons and h...
He was a hardened warrior—trained to obey, conditioned to kill, and trusted with one duty above all: make sure the king was truly dead.
It should’ve been routine. It should’ve been forgettable. Instead, it became the moment that unraveled everything he thought he knew.
This episode follows the life of a battle-scarred enforcer whose single act on a blood-soaked hill set off a chain reaction of consequences—physical, spiritual, and ...
They weren’t soldiers. They didn’t wield swords or claim crowns. But they still managed to shake an empire.
Two brothers from a distant city were sent to tame a wild and fractured frontier—not with fire, but with words. And when they arrived, they found a people hungry for the Gospel… but choked by a language they couldn’t understand.
So they built a new one.
What followed was a revolution—one written not in blood, but in ink. It s...
He was a slave, a swindler, a brawler—and somehow, a pope. This is the story of a man who clawed his way up from the salt mines of Sardinia to the catacombs of Rome… only to divide the Church with mercy.
Scandal followed him. So did chains, controversy, and one very bitter rival. But when the dust settled, he’d done the unthinkable: shattered the illusion that sainthood requires spotless beginnings.
In this episode, we unearth the ...
They say the veil between the living and the dead is always thin… but once a year, it wears paper-thin. And if you listen ever so closely - you might just hear it tear.
This is the story of how three days came to be what most people think of one. But what if I told you that beneath the surface of this familiar trifecta lies a much older, stranger history? A story of ghosts and martyrs, of ancient fires and unshakable hope.
Saints & Sinners pulls back the curtain on faith’s most haunting moments — where light and darkness meet, and history bleeds into eternity. Each episode unearths the battles, miracles, and souls that shaped the Church… and the world.
Because in every age, there are saints who rise, sinners who fall — and history that bears witness.
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