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This day honors all of the saints, known and unknown.
What is All Saints' Day?
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This saint who wrote the Acts of the Apostles and one of the 4 Gospels is the patron Saint of Doctors.
Who is St. Luke
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The lives of these first two early Church Fathers, who were of the most influential, ended in martyrdom.
Who is Sts. Peter and Paul
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This person has the final decision to declare a person a saint.
Who is the Pope?
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True or False: The first people honored as saints were martyrs.
What is true?
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This day is when All Saints' day is celebrated in Eastern Christianity.
What is the first Sunday after Pentecost?
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This saint, who was a prisoner in Auschwitz during the Holocaust, is the patron saint of drug addicts.
Who is St. Maximilian Kolbe
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This saint, known as the Maid of Orleans, led the French army to important victories during the Hundred Years War, crediting these victories to divine guidance. She was put on trial and burned at the stake for charges of heresy. The trial was later examined to find that she was innocent and she was declared a martyr.
Who is St. Joan of Arc
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This is the least number of years that have to pass after a person's death before the person can be considered for declaration of formal sainthood.
What is five?
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True or False: The New Orleans Saints was named after All Saints' Day.
What is true?
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This is the liturgical color for All Saints' Day.
What is white?
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This couple, who were Jesus's own grandparents, are recognized as the patron saints of grandparents.
Who are Sts. Ann and Joachim?
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He is recognized as the first martyr of the Church (Acts 6-7) and his feast day is celebrated on December 26.
Who is St. Stephen
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If the Bishops and Cardinals of the Congregation approve the candidate, then the case is given to the Pope for his personal decision. If one verified miracle has occurred since the death of the person, the person can be beatified and called this. If two miracles occurred, the person can be canonized and called this. Two separate answers.
What is Blessed (one miracle) and Saint (two miracles)?
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This title indicates that the writings and preachings of such a person are useful to Christians "in any age of the Church." Among those who have been granted this title are St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Augustine, and St. Francis De Sales.
What is Doctor of the Church?
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According to the Roman Catholic Church, this is the official name of All Saints' Day.
What is the Solemnity of All Saints?
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He was co-founder of the Jesuit order and spent most of his life as a missionary in India, Asia, and Malaysia, and the patron saint of missionaries.
Who is St. Francis Xavier
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This saint was beheaded because he refused to approve Henry VIII's divorce and remarriage. He would not acknowledge the establishment of the Church of England or recognize Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church of England.
Who is St. Thomas More
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First, the local bishop of the local diocese investigates the person in question of sainthood asking witnesses if the person lived a virtuous and holy life. Once this investigation is complete, the documents are sent to the Vatican in Rome for the Congregation of Saints. From here, the candidate is called this.
What is a Servant of God?
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This mystical body is the spiritual union of the members of the Christian Church, living and the dead, those on earth, in heaven, and in purgatory.
What is the Communion of Saints
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All Saints' Day is the second day of this triduum.
What is the Triduum of All Hallows (Saints) or Hallowmas?
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This saint was a friar in the Servite Order who had a vision of the crucified Jesus leaving the Cross and touching his cancerous leg, only to wake the next morning to find out that he was healed. He is the patron saint of those with cancer.
Who is St. Peregrine Laziosi
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When she was only 11 years old, this young girl gave her life instead of submitting to the will of her rapist and managed to forgive him before she died. She is one of the youngest canonized Saints in the Catholic Church.
Who is St. Maria Goretti
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The Church did not have a formal process of declaring saints until the year 1234. This Pope at this time established procedures to investigate potential saints.
Who is Pope Gregory IX?
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This saint was a young priest who charmed homeless boys with his juggling acts, magic tricks, and acrobatics. Growing up without a father, he learned circus skills to make money for his mother and siblings. During his priesthood, two of his fellow priests thought he was unstable when playing with the boys, so they planned to commit him to a local insane asylum. When this saint heard of their plot, he played along. When the saint's fellow clerics stepped up into the carriage, expecting him to follow, he slammed the door, slapped the horses into motion, and told the carriage driver, "Take them to the asylum! They're expected."
Who is St. John Bosco?