First Century/Martyrdom
What does the Pentecost celebrate?
What is the fifty days after Easter Sunday that commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the apostles.
What was the verse that St. Anthony heard that made him go to the wilderness?
What is “If you want to be perfect, go sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasures in heaven; and come follow Me.” (Matthew19:21).
Who created the Coptic Language?
What is pagan Temple Priests
Which figure in the reformation was highly intolerant of all missionary efforts?
What is Pope Demetrius II
What are the three shapes a church can be built in?
What is Cross, Circle, Ark
Who caused the Great Fire of Rome? Who was blamed? HINT: He was an emperor.
What is Nero and the Christians were blamed and persecuted.
What is the goal of true monasticism?
When was the Coptic Language created?
What is 1-2 AD
What was the Church Missionary Society and when did they arrive in Egypt?
What is a British Protestant Evangelist group which arrived in Egypt in the mid-1820s.
What do the domes and pillars represent?
The representations of domes symbolize heaven.
In the Old Testament in Solomon’s Temple two pillars were setup (2 Chronicle 3:17).
What marks the start of the Coptic Calendar? (you can either give a year or a reign)
What is 248 AD or the reign of Diocletian.
What are the three wrong concepts of Monasticism?
What is flee from poverty, flee from prosecution, seeking honor and priesthood.
Which monk/Saint greatly aided the preservation of the Coptic Language?
What is St. Shenouda the Archimandrite
_______ found that children were key to the Coptic church’s revival.
What is St. Habib Girgis
What are the reasons that mouths are depicted as small in icons?
What is the mouth is small because it can be the source of empty and harmful words. Gentle lips are reminders to glorify and praise the Lord, "My mouth shall praise You with Joyful lips" (Ps 63:5).
Who is the Seal of the Martyrs and why?
What is Pope Peter and because he was the last one to lose his life under Diocletian's reign.
What are the names of the three monastic systems? Describe the three systems.
What is Hermetic (monk is a recluse, living in seclusion), Cenobitic (monk lives in a community under a set of rules), Laura (monks live individually but come together every Saturday-Sunday).
Where does the word Misr come from?
What is Noah’s son Mizraim (Genesis 10:6)
What was the essential reformist aim in Egypt concerning Copt’s and their faith?
What is to “purify” the Copts.
Name three colors used in iconography and what they symbolize.
What is deep blue(symbolizes the unknown),
white(contains all other colors within it)
gold(glory and power of God)
red (martyrdom so blood, or it is regal royalness)
brown (humble lineage of Adam)
green(the color of natural, living things or evil as Satan is the prince of this world)
Black (the color of evil and death)
What declaration proclaimed religious tolerance and ended Christian persecution? Who issued this declaration?
What is the Edict of Milan and Constantine.
What are the five principles of monasticism derived from the life of our Lord Jesus Christ?
What is life of celibacy, voluntary poverty, living as strangers, life of obedience, and manual labor.
What does the Coptic grammatical tense ‘Ese’ mean? (Hint: Amen, Eseshopi)
What is it is the emphatic tense (Amen, it has to be)
How many lessons would St. Habib Girgis print each month by 1938?
What is 15,000, 9,000 four-page lessons for older students and 6,000 religious pictures with a simple description of the lesson on the back for younger students.
Explain why icons are NOT graven images, using examples, and explain the purpose of the icons.
(Exodus 20:1-5)
When placed in its proper context, we see that the Lord is worried about imagery in and of itself, but rather the worship of anything other than Himself, the One True God.