Saints
This saint used specific methods to convert Ireland.
Patrick
This heresy claimed Christ was of ”homoiousious” with the Father.
Arian
Emperor who blamed the Great Fire of Rome on the Christians.
Nero
Roman noble woman who failed to suffocate in a bathhouse so was ordered to be stabbed.
Cecilia
Issued the final teachings at the Council of Jerusalem.
Peter
He addressed the first autobiography to God writing against the Manichean heresy.
Augustine
They claimed Christ had no real human body.
Docetists
This emperor had the Chi Rho painted on his soldiers shields at the Battle of Milvian Bridge.
Constantine
Roman soldier who Diocletian failed to kill with arrows so had him clubbed to death.
Sebastian
Met Atilla and Geneseric outside the walls of Rome to demand they not kill the Roman citizens of the city.
Leo the Great
This saint translated the Bible into the Latin Vulgate.
Jerome
They believed Redemption could be achieved through personal spiritual knowledge.
Gnostics
The first Roman emperor.
Deacon who was not martyred at Mass with his pope and companions but died instead on the grid iron.
Lawrence
Asked Saint Jerome to translate the Bible into the Latin Vulgate.
This saint refused to reinstate the excommunicated Aruis.
Tertullian fell into this rigorist heresy that claimed special inspirations from the Holy Spirit.
Montanism
Emperor during the time of Christ’s crucifixion.
Tiberius
Failed to burn at the stake so a sword was thrust into his heart.
Polycarp
Wrote that Christ is eternal even prior to the Arian heresy to correct others’ incorrect teachings.
Dionysius
He publicly chastised Emperor Theodosius for a massacre in Thessalonica.
Ambrose
More of a philosophy, this was a way of life written and practiced by Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Stoicism
The worst persecution of Christians occurred during his reign.
Diocletian
Wrote to his flock in Antioch while transported to Rome to be fed to the wild beasts.
Ignatius
Did not want the Council of Chalcedon to result in schism, but wrote to establish the dogma of the Hypostatic Union.
Leo the Great