This Years Saints
Stations of the Cross
Papal Sports
Mission Impossible?
100

Who is the Samurai saint?

Who is Saint Dom Justo Takayama?

100

The First station is Called "Jesus is condemned to death". Who imposes the death sentence on Jesus?

Who is Pilate?

100
This pope was a member of the San Lorenzo athletic club as a youth and remains a strong supporter of the San Lorenzo soccer club to this day.

Who is Pope Francis

100

This missionary was kidnapped by pirates as a child.  As a bishop, he returned to that land to convert the people of his former captors. 

Who is Saint Patrick

200

This saint lived in the desert and walked on water?

Who is Saint Mary of Egypt?

200

Who does Jesus meet at the fourth station?

Who is his Blessed Mother?

200

This pope was a soccer goalkeeper in his youth as well as a gymnast.  He remained very active as he rose up the ecclesial ladder and added a "sports" component to the Pontifical Council for Lay People.  

Who is Pope John Paul II
200

This Albanian nun, traveled far from home to serve the poorest of the poor.

Who is St. Theresa of Calcutta

300

This saint is associated in art with a T-Shaped cross, a pig and a book.

Who is Saint Anthony of Egypt 

300

What is the Sixth Station of the Cross?

What is Veronica Wipes the Face of jesus?

300
This Pope participated in a seminary sports team--and although the specific sport is not recorded, current research suggests that it may have been in competitive gymnastics.

Who is Pius X?

300

This missionary served on an island reserved for outcasts until his death.

Who is St. Damien 

400

This saint was a Viking raider?

Who is Saint Magnus?

400

The thirteenth station is "Jesus is taken down from the cross". Who went to Pilate and obtained permission to take Jesus's body?

Who is Joseph of Arimathea?

400

This Pope was an avid outdoorsman and applied to be a member of the 1899 Italian Northpole Expedition--but they would not take a priest.

Who is  Pope Pius XI.

400

This Saint desired to be a missionary to China, but when she had an audience with the Pope he told her "go not to the East, but to the West".  She went on to minister to immigrants in the United States.

Who is Frances Cabrini

500

This Saint traveled to Montecassio where he established a monastery and wrote "The Rule."

Who is Saint Benedict?

500

What is the Tenth Station? 

Extra 100 points if you can name the Bible verse associated with this station.

What is Jesus is Stripped of His Garments?

What is Bible verse John 19:23-24?


500
This Pope was a mountaineer, a keen horseman in his youth, and also very skilled at boxing.  He is on record as saying "and it wasn't just shadow-boxing."

Who is Pope Pius XII

500

This missionary accompanied St. Paul on his journies through Macedonia.

Who is St. Timothy

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