Kidnapped at sixteen and taken to Ireland as a slave, Patrick found God in the loneliness of the mountains. Years later he returned to that same land — not for revenge, but to bring the Gospel.

A young laywoman wrote letters to the Pope and convinced him to return to Rome. In this second part, Catherine dictates her masterpiece, works for peace in the Church, and gives her life at thirty-three.

After twenty years away, Odysseus comes home to Ithaca disguised as a beggar and finds his palace overrun by suitors. Only a test with an old bow, and a secret known to just two hearts, can set everything right again.

Every nine years, Athens must send fourteen young people to the Labyrinth of Crete, from which no one returns. Theseus decides to go in the place of one of them, determined to face the Minotaur — and a princess named Ariadne hands him a simple ball of thread.

On the plain of Camlann, two armies meet for the last battle. Arthur faces Mordred, Excalibur returns to the lake, and a boat crosses the mist toward Avalon. The end of the Arthurian legends — and the promise of the once and future king.

A son asks for his inheritance, leaves home, and wastes everything. When he returns, sorry for what he has done, he finds a father waiting with open arms. A story about God's love and forgiveness.

A princess drops her golden ball into a deep well, and the one who offers to fetch it is a frog, asking in return for a promise she never imagines will matter so much.

Dummling, the youngest of three brothers, shares his simple meal with a little grey-haired old man in the forest. In return he is given a goose with feathers of pure gold — and wherever that goose goes, a very funny procession begins to grow.