Path to Sainthood
Living the Faith
Major Saints - Part 1
Major Saints - Part 2
Major Saints - Part 3
Major Saints - Part 4
Major Saints - Part 5
100

After being called a Servant of God, the next step in becoming a saint is to be declared a _____________.

Venenrable

100

a saint who dies for the faith, out of love for God and their neighbor is called a ?

Martyr

100

This saint said "Better to die than to sin"

Dominic Savio

100

This heretic is not a saint due to him denying the divinity of Christ

Arius

100

This saint was a medical doctor who gave her life rather than hurt her unborn baby, and is a patron saint of mothers

Gianna Baretta Molla
100

This saint founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) as a response to the Protestant Reformation

Ignatius of Loyola

100

This saint founded the female order of Franciscans with her brother Francis; she has a church named after her in Surprise, AZ

Clare of Assisi

200

The path to sainthood begins at the person being considered's __________

Local diocese with their local bishop

200

a place where monks and nuns live a life of prayer, study and work is called?

Monestaries
200

These were some of the first women martyrs?

Perpetua and Felicity

200

This saint is the mother of Augustine who prayed for him to convert from sin, and become a Christian

Monica

200

This Dominican saint persuaded Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome when he was living in France; she has a church named after her in South Mountain, Phoenix AZ.

Catherine of Siena

200

This Dominican was a great theologian who wrote the "Summa Theologian", despite being brilliant, he said all of his writings were rubbish compared to the love of God. He has a church named after him in Avondale AZ

Thomas Aquinas

200

This saint was a wealthy Philadelphia heiress who became a religious sister and dedicated her life to serving Black and Native American Catholics

Katherine Drexel

300
If a person is viewed to have lived a heroically virtuous life, the first step before they are declared a saint is that they will be called a: ____________

Servant of God

300

An incorrect teaching or view about a religious teaching is called a ?

Heresy

300

This was an Irish missionary and monk, who is not celebrated on March 17

Columban
300

This saint is the father of western monasticism, and has a church named after him in Ahwautukee, Phoenix AZ.

Benedict

300

This Jesuit saint was a great missionary to Asia, and has a church named after him in Phoenix

Francis Xavier
300
This saint founded the Order of Preachers, a major religious order founded on prayer, service, study, and community
Dominic
300

This is a monk who promoted the Cistercian way of life, and has a church named after him in Scottsdale AZ

Bernard of Clairvaux
400

After a holy person has one miracle associated with them, they will be declared a ___________ and formally _____________.

Blessed, Beatified.

400

to be seperated or divided from the Church is to be in ______?

Schism

400

This is the first pope and a martyr

Peter

400

This Roman emperor, though not a saint, legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire

Constantine

400

This Pope criticized the ideas of modernism

Pope Pius X.

400

This saint was a Knight of the Immaculata who died in the Holocaust for putting down his life for a man who had a wife and children

Maximilian Kolbe

400

This man was an Augustine monk but instead of reforming the church, broke away from it and was one of the major leaders of the Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther

500

After a holy person has one miracle associated with them, they will be declared a ___________ and formally _____________.

Saint, Canonized

500

Someone who was not Jewish and became one of the first Christians is called a ?

Gentile

500

This saint was a faithful Jew who hated Christianity, but became a great evangelist to the non-Jewish world?

Paul

500

This son of Monica led a life of great sin in his youth, but had a great conversion which led him to become a great bishop and theologian. He has a parish named after him in central Phoenix

Augustine

500

Born wealthy, this saint built a life of poverty and service to the Church, and one of the great religious orders in the history of the Church

Francis of Assisi

500

This is the first saint to be born in the U.S. She has a city named after her in Sun City, AZ

Elizabeth Ann Seton

500

Before becoming Pope from 1978-2005, this saint ministered to young people as a priest and bishop in Poland and suffered greatly under fascist Germany and communist Germany.

John Paul II
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