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100
All Saints’ Day is
celebrated on this day.
What November 1?
100
This saint is known for talking to animals.
Who was Saint Francis?
100
This Saint was the mother of Jesus.
Who is Mary?
100
Having seen a vision of hell, she offered up lunches, persecution by those who doubted the children of Fátima, and other penances to keep others from suffering.
Who was Saint Jacinta Marto?
200
The day before All Saints’ Day is known by this name.
What is Halloween or All Hallows’ Eve?
200
Name this Saint who is known for his work in Ireland.
Who is Saint Patrick?
200
This Saint persecuted Christians until he had a vision on the way to Damascus.
Who is St. Paul?
200
She was raised in a loving family with plenty of money and a philanthropic spirit. But when her request for missionaries was answered by the suggestion that she become one herself, she discerned and gave a radical YES.
Who was Saint Katherine Drexel?
300
This is the meaning of Hallowed.
What is Holy?
Hense the name "All Hallow's Day". The evening, or "e'en" before the feast became popularly known as "All Hallows Eve" or even shorter, Hallowe'en."
300
Name this Saint who was known for giving gifts.
Who was Saint Nicholas?
300
This Saint was the cousin of Jesus and known for eating locusts and wild honey.
Who is John the Baptist?
300
This Saint is considered to be the first monastic.
Who was Saint Anthony of Egypt?
300
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but eternal life.
What is John 3:16?
400
In the 1800’s it was the practice to carve a jack-o-lantern and place it on the window sill for this reason.
What was to keep harmful spirits away?
400
This saint is the guardian of travelers.
Who is St. Christopher?
400
This day the church prays for all those who, in the purifying suffering of purgatory awaits the day when they joined to the company of saints.
What is All Souls Day?
400
It’s human nature to desire to be well-liked and understood. Many of those around this Saint, including some of the women in her own community, saw her single-minded drive to bring the Lord’s Divine Mercy message to the world as egotistical and delusional.
Who was Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska?
400
This activity is done on All Souls Day and could be said to resemble our Trick or Treating.
What is Souling?
Perhaps, too, the cake may have been given in charity in the hope that it would cover a multitude of sins.
600
This vegetable was originally carved instead of pumkins.
What is the turnip?
600
People ask this saint for help when something is lost.
Who is St. Anthony?
600
She was excommunicated for insubordination, and later she was told to move her congregation out of a diocese. Through it all, she showed a radical trust in God and the Church, even when some of its leaders were less than Christlike.
Hint: Australian Saint
Who was Saint Mary MacKillop?
600
You can obtain this during All Souls week.
What is a plenary indulgency?
800
This country celebrates All Souls day, also known as the Day of the Dead, as a national holiday.
What is Mexico?
800
This Saint is the patron saint musicians.
Who is Saint Cecilia?
800
The saint who said, “Our hearts are restless until they rest in you.“
Who is Saint Augustine.
800
Slave traders took away her name and her family. She was kidnapped, beaten, and scarred. And yet, when asked what she would say to her persecutors if she met them again, she said she would thank them because without them she would not have discovered her faith and her vocation.
Who was Saint Josephine Bakita?
800
Pope Sixtus IV in 1484 established this feast as a holy day of obligation and gave it both a vigil and an eight-day period or octave to celebrate the feast. By 1955, the octave was removed.
What is All Saint Day?