Episode Synopsis "Episode 7: “The Communion of Saints”"

"The Communion of Saints": Why on Earth - or in Heaven(!) - would you pray to a "saint"? Isn't this just misguided superstition? Or worse, rank, blasphemous idolatry? Surely, there's no sound Biblical, theological, and historical basis for this!

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