These two saints were masters at linguistics creating the Cyrillic alphabet, maybe they could've healed the Schism!
Who are Cyril & Methodius?
Considering the violence, death, famine, and feudal system, the mindset of most medieval people could best be described as this.
What is pessimistic?
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?
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?
Despite slaughtering/massacring, all Crusaders were guaranteed this for going on a Crusade
What is a ticket to heaven?
Combatting this in Christian society just requires the correct belief to be proven
What is heresy?
*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?
This person's crowning as first Holy Roman Emperor enraged the East, for they thought he was a barbarian.
Who is Charlemagne?
Name TWO of the three major benefits (results) of the Crusades
What is Trade, Economic, &/or Intellectual Growth?
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?
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?
This saint, renamed by the Pope as "doer of Good", converts the Germanic peoples by cutting down the Oak of Thor
Who is Boniface?
The use of this bread follows in the Easter Triduum tradition
What is leavened/risen bread?
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?
Like St. Antony of the Desert, this extreme physical training in an eremitic lifestyle is one way to work towards sainthood
What is asceticism?
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?
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?
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
*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"?
Desiring to live in community but away from the center of society, this type of monastic lifestyle is considered to be
Cloistered Cenobitic