Vocab to Know
Members of the Church who are not members of the clergy.
Who are lay people?
A council or assembly of the clergy of one geographic region of the Church.
What is a Synod?
This person conquered the former Western Roman Empire including N. Africa, Spain, and Italy.
Who was Justinian?
This refers to holding power over things having to do with eternal things.
What is spiritual power?
A Gaelic priest belonging to a guild or caste of hereditary priests who came from the aristocracy or ruling class.
Who was Druid?
God's foreknowledge of what history will bring, and His direction of history to serve His will.
What is providence?
These monasteries aided in the building of Christendom by preserving classic Latin and sent missionaries to spread the Faith.
Who were Gaelic monasteries?
This refers to holding power of things having to do with this life.
What is temporal power?
Disciplines that are the foundation of all learning (grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music).
What are the seven liberal arts?
An extended family or association of families with loyalty to one head.
What is a clan?
This person helped preserve the student of the seven liberal arts by writing summaries of the arts that became textbooks.
This was the first English king to become Christian.
Who was Ethelbert?
An orderly and logical arrangement of rules or laws.
What is a code?
The chief high official of the Roman govermnent.
What is a prefect?
This person's "rule" led to more monasteries spreading across Western Europe because it was less harsh and more balanced.
Who was St. Benedict?
This is the Synod which ordered Gaelic Christians to adopt Roman customs.
What was the Synod of Whitby?
Separated from the world for the sake of prayer and contemplation.
What is cloistered?
The name given to the civilization that came from the city or Byzantium, renamed Constantinople or Nova Roma.
What was Byzantine?
This was the missionary Pope Gregory I sent to convert the Saxons in England.
Who was St. Augustine?
This person changed the role of the pope because the role became the temporal and spiritual leader.
What was Pope Gregory I?