Historical Figures
The priest attributed with beginning the Protestant 'Reformation.'
The ancient city that fell in 1453 to the Ottomans, marking the end of the Roman Empire;
What is Constantinople?
The 20th century Franciscan Saint who was martyred in a concentration camp for taking the place of another man.
Who is Saint Maximilian Kolbe?
The socio-economic system that rejects private property and calls for a socialistic revolution across the world.
What is Communism?
The largest church in the world, which was built in the Renaissance.
What is Saint Peter's Basilica?
The French Emperor who attempted to control and later destroy the Church.
Who is Napoleon?
The revolution that ended a thousand year monarchy, instituted a republic and triggered similar revolutions throughout Europe.
What is the French Revolution?
The 19th century Saint and teacher who assisted immigrants and founded Catholic education in America.
Who is Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton?
The 19th century series of rapid social and economic changes brought about by advances in technology, work and production.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The pagan empire conquered by Hernan Cortez in modern day Mexico.
What is the Aztec Empire?
The Renaissance painter of the Sistine Chapel.
Who is Michelangelo?
The Church council in the 1960s that marks the beginning of the contemporary Church's history.
What is the Second Vatican Council?
The 16th century apparition of Mary to Saint Juan Diego that helped bring about the conversion of millions of Native Americans.
Who is Our Lady of Guadalupe?
The political system where one party rules with near absolute power, including elements of totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
What is Fascism?
The Asian religion/philosophy that Missionary Matteo Ricci worked with to help convert the higher courts of 17th China.
What is Confucianism?
The 17th century astronomer whose challenges to theology placed him under the Inquisition and eventually house arrest.
Who is Galileo?
The modern nation unified in 1871, that ended the Church's temporal power.
What is Italy?
The 16th century soldier turned Saint who founded the Jesuit order and helped stop the spread of Protestantism in Europe.
Who is Saint Ignatius of Loyola?
What is Anglicanism?
The scientific theory of the physical origin of the universe, theorized by Catholic priest Georges Lemaitre.
What is the Big Bang theory?
The longest reigning Pope, who saw nearly all papal lands conquered, and died essentially as a prisoner in the Vatican.
Who is Pope Blessed Pius IX?
The most deadly war in European history before the 1800s, waged in Germany over political and inter-Christian differences.
What is the Thirty Years' War?
The 17th century Jesuit Saint and missionary who went to Africa, India, Japan, and Indonesia, possibly converting the most people ever next to Saint Paul.
Who is Saint Francis Xavier?
The intellectual movement and era characterized by an emphasis on the sciences, reason, democratic politics, and a distancing from God and the Catholic Church.
What is the Enlightenment Era?
The city in which the first Catholic diocese of America was centered in.
What is Baltimore?