Jerusalem · year 33
The Passion
The last week — Palm Sunday to the Resurrection — with scripture citations on the central panels.
Catholic storytelling
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 painted in the register of medieval frescoes.
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Crucis Lux
Francis of Assisi
Umbria · 1181 – 1226
How it works
A guided journey through one sacred life
Each series is a slow-paced audiobook with painted illustrations on every panel. You listen, you read, you see — panel by panel, at your own pace.
Painted panels
Every scene is a hand-curated illustration in the register of medieval Italian frescoes — Giotto and the Sienese masters, the painted comic-page tradition of Tardi and Pratt.
Native narration in five languages
Portuguese, English, Spanish, French, and German — each with its own narrator. 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.
Eleven series
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 seriesMarian 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.
Today
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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Five languages
Native narration, not subtitles
Every series is narrated in five languages — each by a native voice with its own cadence. No translated subtitle reads. Captions are synced word-for-word.
Switch UI and narration independently in your profile. Italian coming when a native voice is available.
Blog
The Crucis Lux Journal
The history behind the series — saints, apparitions, and the Passion, told with the sources.
8 min read
John Paul II and the Fall of Communism: The Pope and the Year 1989
How a Polish pope's words — 'Be not afraid' — and his 1979 pilgrimage home helped ignite Solidarity and the peaceful collapse of communism in Eastern Europe.
11 min read
Augustine's Confessions: The Pear Tree, the Garden, the Voice
Augustine's Confessions — the stolen pears at 16, the garden in Milan at 31, and the voice that said tolle lege. The story of the most famous conversion.
11 min read
Bernadette Soubirous and the 18 Apparitions of Lourdes
The 18 apparitions to Bernadette Soubirous at Massabielle in 1858 — the spring, the message of the Immaculate Conception, and the medical cures of Lourdes.
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