Fun Facts
Destroyed when the pope dies.
What is the pope's ring?
a place approved by the Vatican permitting devotion and used for pilgrimages.
What is a shrine?
Eugenio Pacelli
Who is Pope Pius XII?
To pray for the living and the dead.
What is a spiritual work of mercy?
Vespers of Pentecost.
What is Veni Creator?
Longest election of a pope.
What was 3 years?
Name of underground cemeteries used by early Christians.
What are the catacombs?
Protectress of the Americas.
Who is the Virgin Mary?
One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic.
What are the four marks of the Church?
The job of a "fossor" in the catacombs?
What is a grave digger?
Color of the biretta that a bishop wears.
What is purple?
Term used for ground consecrated for Catholic burial.
What is blessed ground or holy ground?
The intellectual religious sect of the Jews during the time of Christ.
Who are the Pharisees?
Number of crusades?
What is eight?
"Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit."
What were the last words of Jesus.
Inspiration, secret ballot, or by compromise.
What are the three methods of electing a pope?
Summer residence of the Holy Father in the Alban Hills southeast of Rome.
What is Castel Gandolofo?
Only apostle not martyred.
Who is John?
Name of the bread that miraculously fell from Heaven for the Israelites.
What is manna?
The empire founded by Charlemagne.
What was the Holy Roman Empire?
Number of feasts of the cross in the liturgical calendar.
What is two?
Jesus discussed the feeding of the crowds at the Sea of Galilee.
Who was Philip?
First Catholic Portuguese navigator to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Proper term to address cardinals.
What is "Your Eminence"?
The second and greatest king of the Israelites.
Who was King David?