Sacred stories, cinematic audio.
The Passion of Christ, the great Marian apparitions, the lives of the saints — 14 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.
Its own narration track 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.
Premieres November 21Paraíba River, Brazil · 1717
Our Lady of Aparecida
Three poor fishermen haul a small broken clay statue out of the river in their net. Three centuries later she is the Patroness of Brazil.
Lives of the saints
10 series
Alençon & Lisieux · 1873–1897
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
The girl who stood up to a bishop and a pope to enter Carmel at fifteen, and died at twenty-four writing about trust and love.
Skopje & Calcutta · 1910–1997
Mother Teresa
The nun who left her classroom for the streets of Calcutta, and carried a fifty-year darkness no one saw until her letters were published.
Wadowice & Rome · 1920–2005
John Paul II
The Polish actor and worker-priest who became pope, stood against communism and forgave the man who shot him.
Umbria, 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.
Turn on the daily reminder and pick the time: the app brings you the story of the day and the feast of every saint who has a series in Crucis Lux.
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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A narration of its own, 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.
Choose your language once: screens, narration and captions follow together.
The Crucis Lux Journal
The history behind the series — saints, apparitions, and the Passion, told with the sources.
8 min read
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux and the Little Way
Who Saint Thérèse of Lisieux was, what her Little Way means, how Story of a Soul came to be written, and why a Carmelite who died at 24 became a Doctor of the Church.
9 min read
Teresa of Ávila's Interior Castle Explained — The Seven Mansions
What The Interior Castle actually is, why Teresa wrote it in 1577, what happens in each of the seven dwelling places, what she means by prayer at every stage, and how to read the book today without getting lost.
9 min read
Our Lady of Aparecida: The 1717 Statue Found in a River
Our Lady of Aparecida: three fishermen, a clay statue pulled from the Paraíba do Sul river in 1717, patroness of Brazil since 1930 — and no apparition.
Begin with one story.
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