Sacred stories, cinematic audio.
The Passion of Christ, the great Marian apparitions, the lives of the saints — eleven series in five languages, with synchronized narration and illustrations in the style of medieval frescoes.
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Crucis Lux
Francis of Assisi
Umbria · 1181 – 1226
A guided journey through one sacred life
Each series is a slow-paced audiobook with a full illustration on every panel. You listen, you read, you see — panel by panel, at your own pace.
Illustrated panels
Every scene is a cinematic illustration in the register of medieval Italian frescoes — Giotto and the Sienese masters, the comic-page tradition of Tardi and Pratt.
Native narration in five languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and German — each with its own narration. Background playback for the lock screen. Continuous audio for slow listening.
Synchronized captions
Word-for-word captions follow the narration. Scripture citations surface on the central panels with the original passage at one tap.
Three thresholds of the same story
The Passion of Christ, the great Marian apparitions, and the lives of the saints — each series a complete arc, all of them part of one continuous tradition.
The Passion of Christ
1 series
Marian apparitions
3 series
Tepeyac, Mexico · 1531
Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Virgin appears to Juan Diego on the hill of Tepeyac. The tilma still hangs in the basilica.
Pyrenees, France · 1858
Our Lady of Lourdes
Eighteen apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous at the Massabielle grotto. The spring still flows.
Cova da Iria, Portugal · 1917
Our Lady of Fátima
Six apparitions to Lúcia, Francisco, and Jacinta. The miracle of the sun, the three secrets.
Lives of the saints
7 seriesUmbria, Italy · 1181–1226
Francis of Assisi
The merchant’s son who renounced everything, met the Sultan in Damietta, and bore the stigmata at La Verna.
Roman North Africa · 354–430
Augustine of Hippo
From the pear tree of Thagaste to the deathbed in besieged Hippo — a conversion that changed the West.
Spain · 1515–1582
Teresa of Ávila
The Carmelite reformer, mystic of the transverberation, Doctor of the Church.
San Giovanni Rotondo · 1887–1968
Padre Pio
Capuchin stigmatist of the twentieth century, confessor of millions, founder of the Casa Sollievo.
Milan & Assisi · 1991–2006
Carlo Acutis
The first millennial saint. Catalogued the Eucharistic miracles of the world on his laptop.
Galilee → Rome · 1st century
Saint Peter
The Galilean fisherman called by Christ, the rock of the Church, crucified upside down on Vatican Hill.
Tarsus → Rome · 1st century
Saint Paul
From Pharisee persecutor to apostle to the Gentiles — Damascus, Athens, Ephesus, shipwreck on Malta.
The saint of the day, the reflection of the day
A daily entry from the Roman Calendar with a short scripture reflection. If today’s saint has a Crucis Lux series, you can jump straight into it.
The reflections rotate through the year — drawn from the Gospels, the Beatitudes, the Sermon on the Mount, and the wisdom of the desert fathers.
✦ Saint of the day
Augustine of Hippo
Doctor of the Church, bishop of Hippo, author of the Confessions.
✦ Reflection
“Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap.”
Matthew 6:26
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Native narration, not subtitles
Every series is narrated in five languages — each with its own narration track, not a read-aloud of translated subtitles. Captions are synced word-for-word.
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The Crucis Lux Journal
The history behind the series — saints, apparitions, and the Passion, told with the sources.
8 min read
All Saints and All Souls — What the Two Days Mean
1 and 2 November explained: the difference between All Saints and All Souls, where the dates came from, what Halloween has to do with it, the November indulgence for the dead, and why Catholics visit cemeteries.
8 min read
What Is Purgatory? What the Church Actually Teaches
Purgatory in Catholic teaching — what the Catechism says and does not say, the scriptural basis, why it is not a second chance, what the 'fire' means, and how praying for the dead fits in.
8 min read
Why October Is the Month of the Rosary
Lepanto in 1571, Leo XIII's eleven encyclicals, and Fátima on 13 October 1917 — how October became the Rosary month, what the Church actually claims about it, and a realistic way to keep it.
Begin with one story.
Episode 1 of every series is free. Then seven days free — cancel anytime in your App Store settings.