{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Everyday Saints: A Catholic Podcast","title":"St. Genesius — The Catholic Saint Who Converted in the Middle of His Own Joke","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1030,"description":"In this episode of Everyday Saints, a Catholic podcast telling real saint stories in plain, everyday language, we tell the true story of St. Genesius of Rome — an actor who built his career mocking Christians on stage for the Emperor Diocletian, during the worst persecution in Roman history. One night, in the middle of performing a comedy sketch making fun of Christian baptism, Genesius said the words as a joke — and for the first time, meant them. He stopped the performance, told the emperor and the entire theater he now believed it for real, and was arrested before the stage was even cleared. Days later, he was executed rather than take it back. St. Genesius is the patron saint of actors, comedians, and lawyers — anyone whose work involves saying words that aren't fully their own — and his story is one of the strangest, fastest conversions in the entire history of the saints. ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/p11BiaHcokL1mvfojhmEnpzZa2sDMNzQm2mXAU9H-tY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yMzJm/MDQwN2U2MWU2NjA3/ODFjNjhjNTMzNDMw/NGUxMS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}