Potent Potables
Rivals to Relics
Maximum Sacrifice
Up, Up, and Away!
Sunday Sparks
100
The "Abbey" or "Trappist" beer style, from this country and often brewed by Trappist monks, comes in varieties like Dubbel and Tripel.
Belgium
100
This pope was exiled to the mines of Sardinia in 235, where he died alongside Hippolytus.
Pope Saint Pontian
100
This Polish Franciscan priest is best known for volunteering to die in place of another prisoner at Auschwitz in 1941.
St. Maximilian Kolbe
100
This August solemnity celebrates the belief that Mary was taken body and soul into heaven at the end of her earthly life.
The Assumption
100
In the First Reading, this prophet is thrown into a cistern before being rescued.
Jeremiah
200
A herbal liqueur first created in the 16th century by Benedictine monks in Normandy, its recipe remains a closely guarded secret.
Bénédictine
200
Once an antipope opposed to Pontian, this priest was reconciled to the Church before dying a martyr’s death.
Saint Hippolytus
200
Before the war, Kolbe founded a Marian apostolate named for this title of Mary, meaning “she who is without sin.”
Immaculata (Militia Immaculatae)
200
Pope Pius XII formally defined the dogma of the Assumption in this Marian year.
1950
200
The Responsorial Psalm begins with this plea: “Lord, _____ to my aid!”
Come
300
The monks of the Grande Chartreuse monastery in France make this green or yellow spirit using a 400-year-old formula.
Chartreuse
300
To allow a new pope to be elected while in exile, Pope Saint Pontian made history by being the first pope to do this.
Resign
300
In 1930, Kolbe established a monastery near this town, which survived the atomic blast due to its location behind a hill.
Nagasaki, Japan
300
The Assumption is one of these holy days when Catholics are obliged to attend Mass, unless it falls on a Saturday or Monday in some countries.
A holy day of obligation
300
The Second Reading refers to believers being surrounded by a great __________ of witnesses.
Cloud
400
This 17th-century Benedictine monk is often (though inaccurately) credited with inventing champagne, but he did help refine its production at the Abbey of Hautvillers.
Dom Pérignon
400
St. Hippolytus was martyred by being dragged by some of these, of which he is now the patron saint. What a fitting name!
Horses
400
At the age of nine, the future saint had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in which she offered him two crowns, one in each of these colors.
400
Eastern Christians refer to the Assumption as this feast, meaning “falling asleep” of the Mother of God.
Dormition
400
In the Gospel, Jesus proclaims He came not to bring peace but what?
Division
500
Shaped like a Franciscan friar in his brown habit, Frangelico hazelnut liqueur was inspired by the recipes of Italian monks. It's named for Fra Angelico, who was a member of this religious order.
The Order of Preachers (The Dominicans)
500
The epitaph of Pope Saint Pontian, discovered in the Cemetery of Callixtus, was inscribed in this ancient Christian language.
Greek
500
In 1982, Pope John Paul II canonized Kolbe, declaring him a martyr of this specific Christian virtue.
Charity
500
Pope Venerable Pius XII's apostolic constitution, Munificentissimus Deus, wich defined the dogma of the Assumption, was the first and thus far the only ex-cathedra infallible statement since the official ruling on papal infallibility was made at this council.
Vatican I
500
Ebed-melech rescues Jeremiah from the cistern. This title describes his ancestry.
Cushite