It's all Greek to me!
Life's but a Crusade
Where there's a will, there's a way!
Corruption Disruption
Don't Stop Believin'
100

These two saints were masters at linguistics creating the Cyrillic alphabet, maybe they could've healed the Schism!

Who are Cyril & Methodius?

100

Considering the violence, death, famine, and feudal system, the mindset of most medieval people could best be described as this.

What is pessimistic?

100

This belief about the legitimacy of the Pope's power and authority is rooted in scripture, particularly when one Apostle is given the "keys to the kingdom"

What is Petrine Supremacy?

100
This is the passing of ecclesiastical offices to family members
What is nepotism?
100

This saint evangelized Ireland, a task he dreaded because of his prior enslavement, but used to teach about the Trinity through a clover

Who is Patrick?

200
This council affirmed for both the East and West that the veneration of icons was an acceptable Christian practice - it is also the LAST ecumenical council
What is the Second Council of Nicaea (787 AD)
200

Despite slaughtering/massacring, all Crusaders were guaranteed this for going on a Crusade

What is a ticket to heaven?

200

Combatting this in Christian society just requires the correct belief to be proven

What is heresy?

200
This is the selling of ecclesiastical offices
What is simony?
200

*Daily Double!* These two groups emerged towards the end of medieval times to curb feudal corruption and show how to truly live like Christ, these are best described as "begging" orders, or mendicants.

Who are the Dominicans & Franciscans?

300

This person's crowning as first Holy Roman Emperor enraged the East, for they thought he was a barbarian.

Who is Charlemagne?

300

Name TWO of the three major benefits (results) of the Crusades

What is Trade, Economic, &/or Intellectual Growth?

300

This saint wrote hundreds of letters to the Pope (who was living in France!) to get him to move back and take his rightful place in Rome

Who is Catherine of Siena?

300

This person is responsible for the crumbling of the Carolingian empire because of his division of it to his sons who then feuded!

Who is Louis the Pious?

300

This saint, renamed by the Pope as "doer of Good", converts the Germanic peoples by cutting down the Oak of Thor 

Who is Boniface?

400

The use of this bread follows in the Easter Triduum tradition

What is leavened/risen bread?

400

Thinking he worked around the system, King Henry II put his best friend St. Thomas a Becket in a position of power but was shocked when his friend wouldn't speak out against the Pope and did this to his friend

What is murdered?

400

Like St. Antony of the Desert, this extreme physical training in an eremitic lifestyle is one way to work towards sainthood

What is asceticism?

400

This vacation home served as the perfect place for Clement VII to move into causing a significant tension and corruption for Roman Christians

What is the Great Western Schism?

400

Called the "Dumb Ox" by his peers, this scholastic and mystic wrote the Summa Theologiae and worked to order the knowledge of the past for future generations to understand - but in the end, his work was "but straw" compared to how he experienced God

Who is Thomas Aquinas?

500

DAILY DOUBLE!!! THIS word added to the creed in THIS language was one of the major seeds to the schism of 1054

What is filioque and Latin

500

*Daily Double!* The struggle for survival was all to real for medieval people which is why they saw themselves as "but THESE on the shoulders of THESE"

What are "Dwarves" on the shoulders of "Giants"?

500

Desiring to live in community but away from the center of society, this type of monastic lifestyle is considered to be

Cloistered Cenobitic

500
This phrase encapsulates the time period of struggle between church and state and can be boiled down to the question "who has the power to appoint ecclesiastical offices"?
What is the Lay Investiture Crisis?
500
This document declared only the Pope can ratify a council, define tenants of faith, and appoint, remove, and transfer bishop
What is Dictatus Papae?
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