This video seeks to understand the thinking of christian saints who died for their faith. There are numerous saints over the world, and film documents some of them. Including, Stephen and Lawrence, Thomas Becket and Joan of Arc, and also Maximilian Kolbe. The commentators are well known experts in their respective fields; Eugene Kennedy, one of the nation’s most respected writers on religious topics; the University of Notre Dame’s Lawrence Cunningham; and Father Peter Gumpel, of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in Vatican City.