Radio Free Golgotha - Radio Free Golgotha

Radio Free Golgotha - Radio Free Golgotha

Radio Free Golgotha is a semi-regular podcast of the occult and esoteric ramblings of Al Cummins & Jesse Hathaway Diaz, and their guests. Each episode is based around a chosen Saint or Angel, Demon or Devil, Herb, Stone, Geomantic Figure, Tarot Trump, and more as the intersections and trajectories are explored through the discussions between these two friends.

Episodes

July 20, 2025
Welcome Golgothites, we wish you an excellent Feast of Saint Elijah. In honour of this day and indeed this holy figure of the Abrahamic faiths, we bring you a bevvy of topics co-mingling fiery and watery mysteries. Our Saint (and Prophet and perhaps Angel) is San Elias, the prophet Elijah, who ascended to heaven in a whirlwind chariot, and extends his mantle and wisdom in his returns to earth. Our Demon (indeed Queen of Demons) i...
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Merry Feast of Saint Anthony and indeed Happy Friday 13th, Golgothii! This, our forty-eighth episode, sees us celebrating – amongst other things – Saint Anthony’s incorruptible tongue, his veneration across the world, and his patronage of finding lost things, along with his many syncretisations across Worlds both Old and New with powers of doorways and the streets. Our Demon(ised) patron of this episode is Eshu/Exu, that deified...
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March 17, 2025 258 mins
Welcome Golgothers to our forty-fifth episode, celebrating the Feast of St Patrick with a plethora of serpentine slitherings! Saint Patrick – apostle of Ireland, bane of serpents, shamrock evangelist, bearer of the hymnal breastplate, and reviver of the dead – affords us hagiographic discussion of shifting depictions of this saint and receptions of his impact, “All Snakes Day”, and what-even-is-Celtic. Our Demon is Apep, opening ...
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Welcome dear gentle listener to our forty-fourth episode, in which we honour the Feast of the Chair of St Peter. This holyday – dedicated less to a saint than their relic – sees us talking about the seat of papal authority of Rome, the Petrine importance of Antioch, the matryoshka qualities of medieval-style reliquaries, the “throne of Theseus”, apostolic succession, and what it means to be the Rock upon which the Church is found...
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January 14, 2025 205 mins
Happy New Calendar Year, Golgothians one and all, and merry Feast of the Ass! We kick 2025 off with an episode celebrating the many forms of the Festum Asinorum: a holyday drawing on early traditions of the Feast of Fools as well as dramatised ecclesiastical processions of prophets, honouring the sacrality and popularity of the humble donkey in Scripture and indeed in churches. Our featured Demon is Bifrons, the Two-Faced One;...
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Dear Golgothites, as the calendar year draws to a close, we invite you to celebrate the Feast of Holy Innocents with us. Here we remembrance the mythic slaughter of the children of Bethlehem under the tyranny of Bad King Herod, and consider some of the traditions and folkways associated with this day around the world – from the ill-auspices of Cross Day to the election and misrule of Boy Bishops, and much more. Our honoured Dem...
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Happy Feast of St Martin and, indeed, merry Martlemas, dear listeners! We welcome you to the forty-first episode of our folk necromantic co-ramble. On the tail end of the Hallowstide, we honour not only the hallowed hagiography of the historical St Martin of Tours – former soldier, bishop, and miraculous cloak philanthropist – but the many calendrical reasons for the season of the feastday itself: from the migration patterns of g...
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Happy Hallowstide, listeners! We are delighted to invite you to an especially-very-special episode of Radio Free Golgotha – our 40th episode! We took this anniversary opportunity to do something a little different: rather than pick individual foci amongst the topics of our usual sorcerous Sesame Streeting, we got into the fields of the topics themselves: what and how we are continually inspired by getting to talk about Saints, Demo...
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Merry Feast of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, Golgothites! We are delighted to invite you into the Green for an especially verdant celebration of Hildegardmas and our patron saint of the day’s many attendant magics of natural physick, faith, feminist history, and more. We begin, as is our custom, with the hagiographic reason for the season, celebrating the twelfth-century abbess, visionary, healer, and composer of both music and Unkn...
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By the petals and thorns alike, we wish you a merry Feast of Saint Rose of Lima! We hope you have had an august August and invite you to join us for a stroll through the RFG ramble-garden with us.

We begin our promenade of featured topics with the hagiography of Santa Rosa herself, the first person canonized in the Americas; in which we consider penance, mortification, sweet-smelling funeral miracles, floral saint-masks, and the fin...

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Merry Feast of Saint Ignatius Loyola, dear Golgothans! We hope this month of July (what, already done?) has included enjoying lovely things and people and such for you; and we invite you to bring it to a close by joining for us with a light to St Ignatius and an especially fiery episode of this ‘cast pod.

For today we mark Ignatiusmas – the holyday dedicated to that patron of librarians and founding member of the Society of Jesus – ...

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Merry Feast of Saint Irenaeus, dear Golgothites! In another holyday to close out the month, it is a delight to get together once more and welcome you to a lovely little chat about heresy, the divine spark, and the containers and connections we cultivate and celebrate to be able to cast that sacred illumination before us upon the path ever ahead. So pull up a pew and please to be enjoying discussion of Saint Irenaeus, from whose w...
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Happy Feast of St Camilla everyone! On this feastday which brings the May to a close, we invite you to join us in discussing the life and spiritual reflections of St Camilla Battista da Varano; visionary, nun, and eventual abbess of the Order of Poor Clares. We consider her biography and writings and of course her visions – of Christ, of cherubim, and of her own soul separated from her earthly body to dwell closer to God. In this...
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Merry Georgemas, each and every one and all of us! Whether you are tuning in from Moscow, Malta, Ethiopia, Catalonia, or the chalky shores of Albion, we wish you a very merry Feast of St George! As the bluebells ring out from greening meadows and the seasons Spring further toward Summer, we celebrate and reflect on the mysteries of subduing the monsters that blight the land, battling jingoistic nationalism, the popularity of parad...
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Dearest listeners, it is from the Place of the Skull itself we wish you an excellent and powerful Good Friday!

It is with seven years podcast luck this latest episode finally comes to Calvary and celebrates The Friday We Call Good. As our very name suggests, Golgothan themes are important to us here at Radio Free, um, Golgotha, and so we are particul...

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We bid you a transcendently merry Leap-Feast of Saint Oswald of Worcester! Here in the time-out-of-time we at RFG weave our usual merry way through our Sesame Streetlamp-lit special topics of the episode, beginning with the Saint(s) Oswald; that is, Saint Oswald of Worcester who died on February 29th washing the feet of the poor, “revived” English monasticism, and should not be confused – unless you want – with the raven saint Oswa...
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New Year! New episode! Happy Feast of St Anthony the Great! (aka Anthony of Egypt, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Hermit, and more!) Welcome one and all to our thirty-first very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha, and our seven year anniversary! We are delighted to mark and celebrate the Feast of Saint Anthony the Great, and offer you some tempting co-rambles and enthusings on hermitude, satyrs, and what happens in the wil...
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Happy Feast of Saint Olga of Kyiv! There are a great many Saints that lend themselves to magic, to folk expressions, to sorcerous doublings and syncretic masques; and there are some saints whose stories are so bold they become storehouses of witch power and strength in the mere recounting- Olga of Kyiv is notoriously one such Saint! Join us in this very special episode, where our sister in serpent-shed and good friend Katarina Pe...
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On this Feast of the anchorite saints Judith and Salome, we are most pleased to bring you another episode of RFG! Ahhh….. the merry month, where did go?! Perhaps into hiding with our sweet anchorites, not to be confused with a myriad of other Saints Judith and Salome, or the hagiographic (hag because saint, not because crone) blur with two badass ladies of the Hebrew Testament–but a happy feast to you all the same! Brought to you b...
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Welcome welcome welcome to another very special episode of Radio Free Golgotha! This, our twenty-eighth outpouring, comes to you in honour of the Feast of Joan of Arc, and we are delighted to step into the fray and discuss all sorts of business around the revealed mysteries of God and the unseen secrets of state, the celebration of women, and the cultivation of Strength, the development of spirit-hearing as well as spirit-sight, an...
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