We count the passing of the centuries from the day that Jesus of Nazareth was born. Many children know this. And a great many know that two thousand years ago Jesus Christ, the Messiah, died unjustly on a cross in Jerusalem, after he had spoken to humanity of a kingdom of love and justice. In a previous series we narrated the life of Jesus –Jesus a kingdom without frontiers – and now our objective is that of offering young people the story of what happened after that, when He left his disciples to return to the Kingdom of the Father who had sent him to us.

In other words we want to tell about the adventures of the early Christians, when in Jerusalem the disciples of Jesus, guided by the Apostles, went from town to town, region to region to announce the teachings of Christ and to baptize Peoples in His name, giving life to a multitude of communities, churches, and, above all, the Universal Church whose head is that same Christ and its members all those in communion with Him.
The narrative thread of events emerges from the Acts of the Apostles, the letters of the Apostles and, for subsequent events, the Acts of the Martyrs. We used the thread to plot out a route that crosses centuries.

The series we have conceived and produced is set out in two ample sections.
The first, a section that explains what the Apostles and their successors had to do to spread the Gospel, often facing persecution and death: from Jerusalem to Rome with Peter and Paul, and then with the great testimonies of the early centuries of Christianity, through the persecutions, to the Decree of Constantine and the exemplary lives of Augustine and Ambrose.

The second segment of our itinerary is that marked by the testimonies of the characters who spread the word of Christianity amongst western peoples, whilst the Roman Empire proceeded in its decline: the announcement of the Kingdom of God compared to “other” kingdoms.
Thus the series relates the epic tale of missionary monks and bishops who, to reach Northern lands in the name of Jesus, marched along those same roads that were once the glorious routes of Roman legions.

Patrick of Ireland, Benedict of Norcia, Pope Gregory, Augustine of Canterbury, are the heroes of the events narrated by this series that reaches the days of Islam, that is to say when the Prophet’s Knights left the deserts of Arabia and Africa, crossed Spain and headed towards the central regions of Europe.
But the Christian peoples of Europe, which had never been denied the guidance and the presence of the papacy, spawned new protagonists, who represented the profound religious, cultural and political transformations that were being consolidated: at Poitiers the Franks of Charles Martel beat the Muslims, great Popes inspire the Christian princes, whilst Charlemagne becomes the leading figure of this revival.