Saints
First person associated with using the word Catholic.
Who is Saint Ignatius of Antioch?
The physical remains or personal effects of a saint that are approved by the Church for veneration.
What is a relic?
Who are the Romans?
Only the bishop could forgive serious sins through this sacrament that deals with sin after baptism.
What is Penance or Reconciliation?
These are the people who left the faith and were no longer Christians.
What is lapsi?
The saint was a martyr and apologist who wrote against those who said Christians were atheists or disloyal citizens.
Who is St. Justin Martyr?
Those men from the first through eighth centuries AD who were given this title based on their monumental contributions to the Church, especially their extensive teaching and writing about the Faith in order to help it grow and develop.
Who are the Church Fathers?
They believe in monotheism?
Who are Christians?
This sacrament of initiation often uses water and cleans away a person's sins.
What is Baptism?
This means to witness, even if it means dying.
What is martyr?
A saint who argued that lapsed Christians should be allowed back into the Church after a period of penance. He was known for being a unifier in the Church.
Who is Cyprian of Carthage?
The day on the liturgical calendar commemorating a saint’s entry into heaven, typically celebrated on or close to the day when a saint died
What is a feast day?
Had a wealthy, elite, upper class.
Who were the Romans?
This is a sacrament of initiation that involves oil on the forehead and the coming of the Holy Spirit.
What is Confirmation?
The term of the era of Roman Peace when Christianity began to spread.
What is Pax Romana?
A saint who was the son of Christians who defended the Church agains heresies, particularly Gnosticism.
Who is Ireneus of Lyon?
Christian writers who defended the Church through use of reason and intellectual defenses.
Who were the Apologists?
Celebrated prostitution, adultery, and other immoral acts.
Who were the Romans?
This is the sacrament of initiation is when someone takes the Body of Christ for the first time in the Church.
What is Eucharist or Communion?
This word means to "be instructed" referring to those who are preparing to enter the Church.
What is catechumen?
A saint and martyr who fought against heresy and also tried to deal with the question of when Easter should be celebrated. When they tried to burn him alive his body would not burn so they stabbed him.
Who is St. Polycarp of Smyrna?
Incorrect and otherwise errant understandings or teachings about certain doctrinal matters or dogmas; they are opposed to right teaching (orthodoxy)
Preached love thy neighbor.
Who were Christians?
These are the two sacraments of commitment.
What are Matrimony and Holy Orders?
This a Greek word for "I scatter" or "I spread about."
What is Diaspora?