Vocab to Know
A person who pretends to be virtuous but who is not.
What is a hypocrite?
A person who choses to die rather than deny his faith.
What is a martyr?
Standard; The list of books the Church recognizes as truly insipred.
What is canon?
Banishment; Being forced to live away from one's home.
Latin Farther and author of the City of God.
Author of one of the Gospels; Only apostle to escape martyrdom.
Who was St. John?
To change or turn from one belief or religion to another.
What is convert?
The act of insulting God or claiming to have powers or characteristics of God.
What is blasphemy?
The right or true teaching of the Faith?
What is orthodoxy?
Father of Western monasticism; Author of the moderate trile of life in monasteries.
Who was St. Benedict?
Latin Father and translator of Scriptures into Latin.
Who was St. Jerome?
King of Judea at the time of Jesus' birth.
Who was King Herod?
A person who is not Jewish.
What is a Gentile?
A group of people sharing the same beliefs.
What is a sect?
Prayers & actions organized for public worship; the Mass.
What is liturgy?
1st Roman Emperor to order an empire-wide persecution of Christians.
Who was Decius?
Head of the apostles and the Church; Martyred in Rome.
Who was St. Peter?
Jesus' cousin who preached repentance and baptized Jesus.
Who was St. John the Baptist?
Name given to Jesus' 12 disciples; Meaning "messenger".
What is Apostle?
Follower or student of another.
What is a disciple?
A person or thing that takes the blame for a bad act done by another.
What is a scapegoat?
Missionary who converted Ireland to Christian Faith.
Who was St. Partrick?
Saul of Tarsus; became apostle after he converted on the road to persecute Christians; Author of the epistles in the New Testament.
Who was St. Paul?
First martyr; Deacon who was stoned to death in Jerusalem.
Who was St. Stephen?
"Messiah," meaning anointed one.
What is Christ?
The uniting of divine and human natures in Jesus Christ.
What is Incarnation?
One who lives a life of prayer, poverty, and contemplation in a religious community.
What is a monk?
Emperor who made the Christian Church legal and called the Council of Nicaea.
Who was Constantine?
1st Roman emperor to persecute Christians.
Who was Nero?
Roman governor of Judea; Ordered the crucifixion of Jesus.
Who was Pontius Pilate?
The art of speaking in public.
What is rhetoric?
Official ministers in the church (deacons, priests, and bishops).
What is clergy?
What is vulgar?
This is the birthday of the church; means 50.
What is Pentecost?
These books were determined by the Church to belong to the canon of the New Testament in the 4th century.
What is 4 Gospels and the 21 Epistles.
Last Emperor of the Roman Empire West.
Who was Romulus Augustus?
The Chief church of a diocese; the bishop's church.
What is cathedral?
Someone who studies theology, the science that teaches about God.
What is theologian?
One who goes apart from society and lives alone for religious reasons.
What is a hermit?
The first age of the Church.
What is the Apostolic Age?
The Council of Nicaea gave and did these things.
What are a creed still used today and it saved the Church from Arianism.
Last emperor to persecute Christians.
Who was Diocletian?