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St. Genesius — The Catholic Saint Who Converted in the Middle of His Own Joke
In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast telling real saint stories in plain, everyday language, we tell the true story of St. Genesius of Rome — an actor who built his career mocking Christians on stage for the Emperor Diocletian, during the worst persecution in Roman history. One night, in the middle of performing a comedy sketch making fun of Christian baptism, Genesius said the words as a joke — and for the first time, meant them. He stopped the performance, told the emperor and the entire theater he now believed it for real, and was arrested before the stage was even…
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