St. Vincent de Paul is featured in latest ‘Sister Justine’ audio episode

Students from Catholic Academy of Niagara Falls voice the roles of their fictional Catholic school counterparts in the latest episode of “Sister Justine’s Saint Tales,” the original audio podcast play series produced by the Diocese of Buffalo. 

The latest episode features St. Vincent de Paul, voiced by Ray Geska. In the episode, the students of Holy Family School are volunteering at their local St. Vincent de Paul Center when they encounter a stranger who offers insults while driving past. Bewildered by the rudeness, the students then learn the story of St. Vincent de Paul, who was known to be difficult in his own right until learning and embracing the power of God’s compassion. It’s a lesson that serves the children well in the episode’s final act.

“It’s special that students from Catholic Academy of Niagara Falls participated in this episode, because they go to class in the same building where the real Sister Justine once taught,” said the podcast’s creator and producer, Michael Mroziak. “We recorded this in the school library, not far from the classrooms where Sister Justine taught and visited.”

Sister Justine Yanics, who passed away in 1992, taught for 18 years in the building when it was known as Prince of Peace School. 

Two more episodes are scheduled for release in the week before Christmas, and five more will be released in January to complete the show’s third season. Students from St. Gregory the Great School in Williamsville, St. Stephen School in Grand Island, and Cardinal O’Hara High School in Tonawanda, as well as adult volunteers, also participated in voicing characters this season.