Martin Scorsese Will Dive Into The Journey To Sainthood With An 8-Part Fox Nation Docuseries

Scorsese will host, narrate and produce an eight-part docudrama called “Martin Scorsese 🍃Presents: The Saints” for the streaming service Fox Nation, it announced Wednesday.

The series⭕ will follow the lives of eight men and women who have been beatfied, including Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene and Maximilian Kolbe, a Franciscan friar who volunteered to die at Auschwitz to save the life of the father of a family.

ꦓThe first four episodes of “Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints” will debut in November. The remaining four will air by May 2025.

The Oscar winner, who briefly pursued becoming a priest before switching to filmmaking, told the Los Angeles Times in January that his next film꧋ would be an adaptation of Shusaku Endo's book “A Life of Jesus".