Saints and Heroes Collection (1988-1995)
Links
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Overview
Short episodes containing a summary of the life of each saint. Intended for children but also inspiring for devout adults: a treat for the whole family.
Review
This collection of kids movies are actually very accurate and faithful to the events and the spirit of each saint, except for the 1980s-style banter and jokes that necessarily had to find their way into each episode.
Caveats
Family friendly, but a few episodes have a few scary scenes which might be too much for young children. Parents or older siblings should review these scenes first:
- Vision of Hell in the Fatima movie
- Interrogation of children in Fatima movie
- Crocodile scene in St. Francis Xavier movie
- Nightmare scene in St. Patrick movie
Some movies I don’t recommend at all:
- Guardian Angel movie is very bad
- St. Nicholas movie is irreverent and strange
- Columbus is not a Saint
- The Odyssey is literally pagan mythology
All Movies
- Passion of the Christ (2004)
- A Man For All Seasons (1966)
- A Man For All Seasons (1988)
- Saints and Heroes Collection (1988-1995)
- Ignatius of Loyola (2016)
- Our God’s Brother (1997)
- Blessed Duns Scotus (2011)
- The 13th Day (2009)
- Bernadette (1988)
- Saint Maria Soledad (2016)
- St. Pedro Poveda (2016)
- Don Bosco (1988)
- Flowers of St. Francis (1950)
- The Jeweller’s Shop (1988)
- Monsieur Vincent (1947)
- Miracle of Saint Therese (1959)
- St. Augustine (2010)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Mother Teresa (2003)
- Passion of Bernadette (1990)
- Padre Pio (2000)
- John XXIII (2002)
- Paul VI (2008)
- Pope John Paul II (2005)
- Saint John Baptist de la Salle (1968)