Saints
Which Saint translated the Bible into Latin
Who is St. Jerome
This doctrine teaches that Christ is fully God and fully man in one divine person.
What is the Hypostatic Union
This council affirmed that the Son is “consubstantial” with the Father.
What is the Council of Nicaea
This ancient Christian symbol, often shaped like overlapping Greek letters, represents Christ’s name.
What is the Chi-Rho
This liturgical season of penance and preparation precedes Easter.
What is lent
After hearing a child say “Take and read,” this saint opened Scripture to Romans 13 and underwent the conversion that would eventually lead to Confessions.
Who is Augustine of Hippo?
This term describes the change of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.
What is Transubstantiation
This council declared Mary to be Theotokos, or Mother of God.
What is the Council of Ephesus
Often seen on liturgical garments, this three letter symbol represents the name of Jesus Hominum Salvator
Christogram (IHS)
This traditional devotion consists of meditating on mysteries from the lives of Jesus and Mary using repeated prayers.
What is the Rosary
This Dominican preacher and theologian famously organized a Eucharistic miracle procession after doubts about the Real Presence helped inspire the feast of Corpus Christi.
Who Is St. Thomas Aquinas?
This doctrine states that Mary was conceived without original sin.
What is the Immaculate Conception
This council responded to the Protestant Reformation and clarified Catholic teaching on justification and the sacraments.
This three-letter inscription, commonly placed above crucifixes, abbreviates the Latin phrase meaning “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”
What is INRI
This Eucharistic practice involves the display of the consecrated Host in a monstrance for prayer and worship.
What is Eucharistic Adoration
This Carmelite mystic and Doctor of the Church wrote The Interior Castle and reformed her religious order alongside St. John of the Cross.
This doctrine teaches that human beings can know certain moral truths through reason because creation reflects an eternal moral order established by God.
What is Natural Law
This council defined Christ as one person in two natures “without confusion, change, division, or separation.”
What is the Council of Chalcedon
In Christian iconography, this bird often symbolizes the Holy Spirit and appears prominently in depictions of Christ’s baptism.
What is the Dove
This ancient penitential practice, especially associated with Lent and Good Friday, involves abstaining from food for spiritual discipline and repentance.
What is Fasting
This Cappadocian Father authored On the Holy Spirit and helped articulate Trinitarian theology after Nicaea.
Who is St. Basil
According to Thomistic theology, this doctrine teaches that God is not composed of parts, properties, or separate attributes, but is utterly one.
What is Divine Simplicity
This ecumenical council condemned monothelitism by affirming that Christ possesses both a divine will and a human will.
What is the Third Council of Constantinople
In Christian funerary art and the catacombs, this mythical bird that rises from its own ashes became a symbol of the Resurrection.
What is the Pheonix
This ancient Holy Saturday practice begins with the blessing of a new fire and the lighting of the Paschal Candle.
What is the Easter Vigil