USU History
Theology
Saints
Stations of the Cross
Christmas Season
100

According to Utah State University tradition, couples who kiss on this campus landmark are said to one day get married.

What is the A Block?

100

What year was the Second Vatican Council opened?

1962

100

This Saint is the Patron Saint of the Internet and Computer Programmers

Who is Saint Carlo Acutis?

100

This is the First Station of the Cross

What is Jesus condemned to death?

100

This day is the beginning of the Christmas Season

What is December 25, 2025

200

This year USU was founded

1888

200

This Change of the whole substance of bread into the Body of Christ and of Wine into his Blood is what the Church fittingly calls by this term.

What is Transubstantiation?

200

This Saint used the term Verso L'alto

Who is Saint Georgio Pierre Frassati

200

“In the traditional Stations of the Cross, this is the number of times Jesus is depicted falling on His way to Calvary.”  

what is 3 times?

200

This is the Last Day of The Christmas Season

The Baptism of the Lord or January 11th

300

This Utah State University alumnus became an NFL Hall of Famer with the Los Angeles Rams and later starred in TV shows like Little House on the Prairie.

Who is Merlin Olsen?

300

Pope Pius XII defined it as a divinely revealed dogma in Munificentissimus Deus ( 1950): the Immaculate Mother of God, the ever Virgin Mary, " Having completed the course of her earthly life, [ she ] was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory."

What is the Assumption?

300

On May 13, 1981—the anniversary of the first apparition at Fatima—this pope survived an assassination attempt.

Who is Saint Pope John Paul II

300

This station Jesus dies on the Cross

What is the Twelfth station? 

300

This Feast Day is Celebrated on the 1st of January 2026, in the modern calendar

What is The solemnity of Mary, Mother of God 

400

In this year, Utah State University introduced its iconic bull mascot known as Big Blue.


What is 1918?



400

What are the seven sacred rites instituted by Christ, through which God’s grace is given to the faithful?

Baptism, Communion, Reconciliation, Confirmation, Matrimony, Holy Orders, and Anointing of the Sick.

400

What Christ-like wounds, famously borne by Padre Pio, also appeared on saints such as St. Francis of Assisi, marking them with the sufferings of Christ.

What is the stigmata?

400

This Woman Wipes the face of Jesus during the Sixth Station

Who is St Veronica?

400

Father Shumway says the Christmas Season ends this Day

What is February 2nd

500

This longtime Utah State men’s basketball coach led the Aggies to 14 straight 20‑win seasons and multiple NCAA Tournament appearances during the 2000s, becoming the winningest coach in school history.

Who is Stew Morrill?

500

During the Holy Mass, this part of the liturgy includes the consecration of bread and wine into the Body and Blood of Christ.

What is the Eucharistic Prayer?

500


This Argentine saint, canonized in 2016, was known for her work with the poor, founding the Missionaries of Charity, and was called the “Saint of the Gutters.”

Who is St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa)?

500

This Gospel makes reference the fourteenth station 

What is the Gospel of Matthew?

500

The Christmas season consists of this many days

What is 18 days