Saints from the Past by Agents from today
By Rev Matthew Baum
Categories: Religion & Spirituality, Christianity
Saints from the past, Modern Storytelling— AI composed stories of Catholic saints, famous and forgotten. AI Generated A Franciscan who flies through the air, An African Marytr who defends teenage boys from abuse with his life, an early martyr who had a vision of purgatory and prayed for the dead in the 200s, a Black Christian King who fought against slavery in the 1500s, and a priest who walked into a banquet with half his beard shaved off… I’ve been working on a project the last few weeks, I’d like to share. If you know me, you know I love stories, especially stories of Saints, the obscure stories, the fun stories, and the touching stories. I had once hoped to do a podcast on saints, telling their stories as stories, but I realized the time commitment of recording on a regular basis was more than I could handle. Today, with the help of AI, I’d like to share a new podcast I’ve been working on. Full disclosure, I’m actively using Muse AI for research and production of the podcast, but I review and edit each episode for accuracy and good storytelling. I now have about 7 episodes completed. Please let me know what you think and share. I’m hosting it now on a limited platform…if people like it, I will probably have to move it…so please let me know in the comments here if you like it and would like to see more!
7 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- Philip Neri: The Saint with Half a Beard
Daniel tells the story of Philip Neri, the apostle of Rome, who fought pride with practical jokes, turned confession into an art of joyful penances, and built the Oratory on laughter, music, and love. AI Generated AI Generated
- Joseph of Cupertino: The Flying Friar
Daniel tells the story of Saint Joseph of Cupertino (1603-1663), the slow, clumsy friar nobody wanted, who passed his ordination exams on the one Gospel verse he knew, rose into the air in ecstasy so often that the canonization process recorded more than seventy flights under oath, survived the…
- Christina: The Woman who Came Back at Her Own Funeral
Daniel tells the story of Christina the Astonishing of Sint-Truiden (c. 1150-1224), who rose from her coffin at her own funeral Mass, reported a journey through purgatory, hell and heaven, and spent forty years in astonishing penance for the souls she had seen - chained as mad by her neighbors…
- Perpetua and Felicity: Written in Her Own Hand
Carthage, 203 AD — Vibia Perpetua, a 22-year-old nursing mother, keeps a diary in the condemned cell and leaves us the earliest surviving words of a Christian woman: the ladder vision, her prayers for her dead brother Dinocrates, Felicity’s childbirth in prison, and the day in the arena when she…
- Afonso of Kongo and the Cross in the Sky
Afonso I of Kongo — never canonized, but called the Apostle of Congo — the king who won a throne under a cross in the sky, built a Christian kingdom as Portugal’s equal, fought the powers of his day, and in his 1526 letters begged in his own words for the slave trade to end, three centuries before…
- Saint Charles Lwanga and the Fire at Namugongo
The true story of Saint Charles Lwanga — the 26-year-old chief of the royal pages in Buganda who shielded his boys from King Mwanga II, secretly baptized the youngest the night before their arrest, and led the Uganda Martyrs to the fire at Namugongo on 3 June 1886. AI Generated AI Generated
- The Voyage of Saint Brendan the Navigator
The life and legendary seven-year voyage of Saint Brendan the Navigator — an Irish monk in a leather boat, Easter Mass on a whale, the Paradise of Birds, Judas on a rock, and the search for the Land of Promise. AI Generated AI Generated
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