Award-winning filmmaker Martin Scorsese is debuting his latest work on Fox Nation: A new docudrama exploring the lives of the saints.
“I’ve lived with the stories of the saints for most of my life, thinking about their words and actions, imagining the worlds they inhabited, the choices they faced, the examples they set,” Scorsese said of “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” in a press release.
“These are stories of eight very different men and women, each of them living through vastly different periods of history and struggling to follow the way of love revealed to them and to us by Jesus’ words in the gospels.”
Scorsese serves as the executive producer, host and narrator of the docuseries that premiered on 17 November, his 82nd birthday.
The eight-episode series reaches across time and space to follow heroic men and women who dedicated their lives to God no matter the cost.
Each hour-long episode focuses on a different saint, beginning with St Joan of Arc. Other episodes will feature St John the Baptist, St Sebastian, St Maximillian Kolbe, St Francis of Assisi, St Mary Magdalene, St Moses the Black and St Thomas Becket.
The docudrama will be released in two parts by Fox Nation, a subscription streaming service by Fox News Media. The first four episodes air weekly beginning on 17 November and the last four episodes will become available in spring 2025.
Each episode invites viewers to travel back in time and watch the saints come to life, with Scorsese narrating between scenes.
The first episode stars Liah O’Prey as St. Joan of Arc, a French saint who fought in the Hundred Years’ War against the English while guided by the voices and visions of saints.
The young peasant woman, celebrated for liberating Orléans and leading Charles VII of France to the throne, died at the stake in 1431 after being convicted of heresy. She was 19 years old.
