Advent Wreath
This is the number of candles on an advent wreath.
What is five?
This is the actual name of the person most people know as Santa Claus.
Who is St. Nicholas?
Who is the Archangel Gabriel?
This is the city/town where Joseph was from and from where Joseph and Mary began their journey.
What is Nazareth?
This name of Jesus means "God is with us".
This is the color of the candle we light on the third week of advent.
What is pink/rose?
Mary appeared this this saint, who is widely celebrated in Mexico and at the time of Mary's appearance was a recent convert from the Aztec religion.
Who is St. Juan Diego?
This is the name of the King that ruled at the time of Jesus's birth.
Who is King Herod?
What is to be counted in the census?
This is the direction the magi traveled *from*.
What is the east?
This is the Latin name of the third Sunday of advent, meaning "joy".
What is Gaudete?
This saint's feast day is typically the first one celebrated during Advent.
Who is St. Andrew?
Who is John the Baptist?
These are the three gifts the magi brought to Jesus.
What is gold, frankincense and myrrh?
This is the royal family St. Joseph was a member of.
What is the line of David?
This is the name of the white candle in the center of the Advent wreath.
What is the Christ candle?
Known as the Patroness of Mexico, her feast day is celebrated on December 12th.
Who is Our Lady of Guadalupe?
This relative of Mary had a baby approximately six months before Jesus was born.
Who is St. Elizabeth?
This is what King Herod asked the magi to do.
What is go back and tell him where the baby was born?
These people were told by and angel to not be afraid, but to travel to Bethlehem where they would find a baby wrapped in swaddling clothes.
Who are the shepherds?
These are the virtues each candle represents/symbolizes on the advent wreath.
What is hope, faith, joy, and love?
This saint's feast day is on December 13th and is often celebrated with candles and lights as she is the patron saint of the blind.
Who is St. Lucy?
What is Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar?
This is the end the first line of Mary's Magnificat "my soul proclaims...".
What is "the greatness of the Lord"?
We call the people of the Old Testament who were sent to tell God's people that a Messiah would someday come this.
What is prophets?