Saints and Doctors
This female doctor of the Church (one of only four), was a renowned liturgist and musician, but also a physician who practiced Medicine.
Who is St. Hildegard of Bingen?
He is Franciscan Monk (monks may or may not be priests) who is considered the grandfather of the Scientific Method
Who is Roger Bacon?
An Astronomer priest who discovered Heliocentrism (the earth revolves around the sun); first to get the planets in the correct order.
Who is Copernicus ?
Who is Galileo ?
(So, he was a defrocked priest, he had joined the Jesuit order, but his dad pulled him out. So he had 3 kids, but was never married. So I guess he goes in Laity).
This basis of life was named after rooms in Catholic monasteries.
What are cells?
This Doctor of the Church is most known for teaching St. Thomas Aquinas, who is also a doctor of the Church, discovered arsenic, and is said to have had made an automaton.
Who is St. Albertus Magnus?
This sister was the first woman to earn a PhD. in Computer Science.
Sr. Mary Kenneth Keller (1913-1985)
The founder of the Big Bang Theory.
Who is Georges Lemaître ?
He is considered the father of modern philosophy. Also a great mathematician.
Who is Rene Descartes?
If we live like God doesn't exist, and he does, we have lost everything.
What is Pascal's Wager?
This saint's research discovered that insulin could help regulate diabetes.
St. Giuseppe Moscati
William of Ockham is known for this maxim (famous true saying)
A Jesuit priest who studied Pendulums, Mapped the moon, and was the first to record the speed of a free falling body.
Who is Giovanni Battista Riccioli?
This person discovered two vaccines against rabies and anthrax.
Louis Pasteur
The Vatican owns this many observatories:
What is two. One in Italy, one in Arizona.
This Japanese Radiologist developed Leukemia while researching radioactivity; it worsened after being exposed to the Atomic Bomb that hit Nagasaki; by which his wife had been completely incinerated.
Servant of God Takashi Nagai
This monk (and priest) is known as the Father of Genetics; he wrote about it after observing pea plants in the Monastery garden.
Who is Gregor Mendel?
A Jesuit priest who invented the selenograph with Giovanni Battista Riccioli, another Jesuit priest.
Who is Francesco Maria Grimaldi?
The first to discover radioactivity; Nobel Prize winner
who is Henri Becquerel?
This recent pope, and saint, said "Faith and Reason are the two wings on which the human soul soars to the Heavens"
Who is Saint John Paul II
Blessed (so almost a saint) Bishop Nicolas Steno was the discoverer of this field, meaning he was the first to study fossils.
What is Paleontology?
A benedictine priest; he spent his life showing there is no dichotomy (split) between Faith and Reason (Religion and Science).
Who is Fr. Stanley Jaki?
A physicist, mathematician, and poet, he is best known for "Pascal's Wager".
Who is Blaise Pascal?
A priest who studied volcanoes, and created a scale to measure the strength of earthquakes known as theGiuseppe Mercalli scale.
Who is Giuseppe Mercalli ?
This is the process by which we boil things like milk, killing the bacteria and making them safer to drink.
What is Pasteurization (named after it's founder Louis Pasteur ) ?