Oh No You Didn't!
Animals Play Their Part
Keep the Hope Alive
Now That's Hardcore
I Wouldn't Have Wanted to Know You Before
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This spunky saint is credited with returning the pope to Rome when there was a battle of wills (and egos) between King Philip IV and Popes Boniface and Benedict IX resulting in Pope Clement V moving the papacy to France. This saints letters convinced him to come back.
Who is St. Catherine of Sienna?
100
According to stories told of him, a group of his followers determined that this monk's rules were too strict for anyone to follow so they decided to poison his drink, but when this saint blessed his food and drink the drink turned into a serpent which the saint cast out of his cup. This saint could also see demons and cast them out.
Who is St. Benedict?
100
This famous and popular saint was known for encouraging hope, and one of his most famous quotes was, “I plead with you--never, ever give up on hope, never doubt, never tire, and never become discouraged. Be not afraid.”
Who is Pope John Paul II (John Paul the Great)?
100
This lawyer didn't miss a beat when he was asked to betray his beliefs and support his king's divorce. For this he was beheaded, and was recorded as moving his beard just before his execution saying, "Do not harm my beard for it has committed no offense".
Who is St. Thomas Moore?
100
This saint's famous conversion occurred after he had a vision of Christ and fell off of his horse.
Who is St. Paul?
200
This feisty saint is known for the following quote: "Dear Lord, if this is how you treat your friends it is no wonder that you have so few!"
Who is St. Teresa of Avila?
200
This saint is the patron of protection from dangerous animals.
Who is St. Vitus?
200
When the native people of a country were being suppressed and held under the control of a cult, robbed of all hope of ever being free, this saint was so undeterred by the leaders of the cult that he challenged them to show who's god was more powerful. Their's did nothing, while his drove out every snake on the land, and to this day there are no snakes in this country.
Who is St. Patrick?
200
This warrior princess, when asked if she was scared to go into battle said, "I am not afraid... I was born to do this."
Who is St. Joan of Arc?
200
These two saints are probably the two most famous catholic "party boys". One was born into wealth, while the other came from a simple background, but both led infamous lives as pleasure-seeking, loose living youths. One striped naked in the town square to renounce his family's wealth and the other had an illegitimate child.
Who are St. Francis of Assisi and St. Augustine of Hippo?
300
This young woman was sentenced to death by her father after she converted to Christianity, and he sentenced her to be tortured and then to behead her himself. As he was heading home after the execution he was struck by the lightening and died instantly. This saint is now the patron saint of fireworks, and all things explosive for that matter.
Who is St. Barbara?
300
During his missionaries works in Asia, this saint was working off of the pearl coast and found a black pearl when rescuing the treasure of a samurai from the deep water.
Who is St. Francis Xavier?
300
This mother prayed for the conversion of her son ceaselessly, even when he mocked her. Her son eventually converted and also became a saint.
Who is St. Monica?
300
This saint is the only King of France, and he led two crusades to the Holy Land, dying in a brutal battle, as all great kings do, on his second crusade. But, to top it all off, he also wore cilice (a sharp metal chain intended to cause pain) around his leg so as the rest of his soldiers endured pain, his was doubled.
Who is St. King Louis IX?
300
This saint was a dedicated Roman soldier who was mostly blind. That is until he stabbed Christ.
Who is St. Longinus?
400
Not feeling so attractive today? Well, this man is the patron saint of unattractive people. As a matter of fact, the local townspeople built him a cell attached to the church so that he would no longer cause babies to cry. But he could bi-locate, being at mass and in the field at the same time, and lived solely off of water and the Eucharist.
Who is St. Drogo?
400
This is the only female saint known as "the Great", and was admired by St. Teresa of Avila and was her confessor, and the patron saint of the West Indies. Although the history behind it is unknown, she is also known as the patron saint for protection against mice and is often depicted holding a mouse, usually by the tail.
Who is St. Gertrude the Great?
400
This saint had such great hope in the Lord that she bore a child, long after she was assumed baron and well past child-bearing years.
Who is St. Elizabeth?
400
This saint stood atop a pillar for 37 years living only off of goat's milk and flat-bread brought to him by small children of the town after spending 40 days closed in a small hut without food or water. He died, while standing, from an infected sore on his leg.
Who is St. Simeon Stylites?
400
This saint was a slave for an Egyptian who was dismissed and founded a gang of bandits who roomed the Nile Valley. One day, whilst in the midst of a robbery, he was spotted by a man and became so outraged that the next day he swap across the Nile with a knife between his teeth to kill the man. The man, hearing news of this saint's anger, fled, so this saint killed four of the man's sheep, and swam back across the Nile with his knife between his teeth.
Who is St. Moses the Black?
500
This saint was told that she would die a slow, painful, miserable death from tuberculous, but a witness to her death said "She died with a smile which remained upon her lips, so that I could not convince myself that she was really dead."
Who is Gemma Galgani?
500
While there is one very well known patron of animals, the other is far less well known.
Who is St. Nicholas of Tolentino?
500
This saint desired to be a nun from a very young age, but was forced to marry a powerful, wealthy, and short-tempered nobleman. She endured his short temper, insults, infidelities, murderous ways while making their home a sanctuary of holy bliss.
Who is St. Rita?
500
This saint was one of nine daughter born at once to a noble woman in Rome, but their mother was so disgusted with the fact that she had born so many children at once, and even more appalled by the fact that she had birthed no sons, that she sent the girls away to live in a small village. But, living as devout Christians, when the girls became older they set out on secret missions throughout the land freeing Christians from prison. When the girls were caught they were ordered by their father to marry pagan me, and all of them refused, escaped from jail, and set out as a guerrilla unit, waging war against Roman empire until all of them were killed or caught and executed. This saint was beheaded, and she and two of her sisters were canonized.
Who is St. Quiteria?
500
Which saint had hundreds of concubines, many wives around the world, and so many children that everyone lost count? The same saint who, before his conversion, was known for conquering lands, slaughtering people, partying, having children, and, like any good pagan, participating in human sacrifices.
Who is St. Valdimir (of Kiev)?
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