Life
Modern nation where St. Dominic was born.
(double or nothing points if you can name the exact city)
What is (Caleruega) Spain?
What St. Dominic achieved at the age of 24.
What was ordination?
Who St. Dominic saw when he received the Rosary according to tradition.
Who was Mary (the Blessed Virgin)?
What the Bishop of Orkney of lost when he tried to deny the miracles of St. Magnus.
What was his sight?
St. Francis of Assisi was gifted these markings on his body by God.
What are the stigmata?
Modern nation where St. Dominic died.
(double or nothing points if you can name the exact city)
What is (Bologna) Italy?
The heresy St. Dominic preached against in Southern France.
What was Catharism (Albigensianism)?
The part of the Hail Mary absent during St. Dominic's time.
What was the word "Jesus" (and the entire second half)
The method of St. Magnus's martyrdom.
What was execution with an axe?
When praying in a decrepit church, St. Francis recieved these instructions.
What was to rebuild God's church/house?
The member of St. Dominic's family who is beatified in the Catholic Church.
Who is his mother (Juana de Aza)?
After originally seeking to secure approval for his religious order from Pope Innocent III, St Dominic would receive approval and support the next year from this pope.
Who was Pope Honorius III?
The meaning of the Latin word "rosarium" where we get the word Rosary from.
What is rose garden or bouquet of roses?
Where St. Magnus sought refuge after losing his brother during campaign.
Where is Scotland?
St. Francis of Assisi is credited for inventing this popular Christmas tradition.
What is the live Nativity scene?
The vision St. Dominic's mother had while praying for another son at the Abbey at Silos.
What was a vision of a dog leaping from her womb with a flaming torch in its mouth?
The reason St. Dominic originially went to Denmark with Bishop Diego de Acebo before they began their missionary work.
What was to find a bride for a Spainish Prince?
Some items which were used for counting prayers before the Rosary.
What are beads, rocks/pebbles, or cords?
The holy day around when the Co-Earls (Magnus and his cousin) were to meet to negotiate their conflict.
What was Easter?
The reason the priest refused a young St. Francis's offer of gold to rebuild a ruined church.
Why was because Francis had stolen from his father to get it?
The full name of the saint whom St. Dominic was named after. (hint, "Dominic __ _____")
Who was St. Dominic of Silos?
The other, offical, name of the Dominican Order which St. Dominic founded.
What is the Order of Preachers?
The Marian Psalter, a predecessor to the modern Rosary, consisted of how many Hail Marys?
What is 150?
The type of land which became of the rocks and moss where St. Magnus was executed.
What is green sward (grassy/grassland)?
After St. Francis of Assisi's proposed monastic order received pushback from papal advisors, Pope Innocent III received this vision.
What is a vision of a poor man (Francis) holding up the church (the Lateran Basilica)?