St. Alfred the Great

Catholic Saints

Augustine Institute

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🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Dr. Carl Vennerstrom and Mary McGeehan share details of the life of St. Alfred the Great, a 9th century English saint. Due to Danish invasion, Christian practices and clerical literacy rates were in decline as Alfred was growing up. Inspired by his faith and his duty as king, St. Alfred dedicated his life to rebuild England’s Christian education and culture.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast on Catholic Saints.
0:06.0	This podcast is produced by the Augustine Institute, an Apostolate helping Catholics
0:10.7	understand, live, and share their faith.
0:17.7	Hello, welcome to Catholic Saints.
0:20.4	My name is Mary McGeehan, and I am joined here with Dr. Carl Venstrom, professor at the
0:26.4	graduate school.
0:27.4	Glad to be here.
0:28.4	Thank you.
0:29.4	Yeah, thank you.
0:30.4	What is one of the classes you're currently teaching this semester?
0:32.5	I am teaching Greek.
0:34.5	Okay.
0:35.5	Wonderful.
0:36.5	So we've read a large swaths of Luke and Acts most recently.
0:41.5	In Greek.
0:42.1	In Greek.
0:42.5	Yeah.
0:43.0	We're going to close off with St. Ignatius of Antioch.
0:46.2	Okay.
0:47.1	An apostolic father.
0:48.3	Yes.
0:49.0	Yeah, it's been a lot of fun.
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