Church History
Christians worshiped in secret until this important ruling in 313 AD ending persecutions.
What is the Edict of Milan?
This Polish pontiff played a key role in the fall of Communism
Who is St. John Paul II?
This devotion requires a Rosary, and prayers revealed to St. Faustina.
What is the Divine Mercy Chaplet?
The first three gospels are often called this because of their similar viewpoints.
What are the Synoptic Gospels?
He wasn't a wrestler, but the title of this saint's greatest work reminds us of his theological weight.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
The 11th century dispute between East and West, divided the Church over issues like the Filioque clause.
What is the Great Schism? (Orthodox)
This Pope improved our time keeping by instituting a new calendar system in 1582
Who is Pope Gregory?
Revealed to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1673, this devotion honors Christ's love through First Friday Masses and Holy Hours.
What is the Sacred Heart devotion?
A dark, unpleasant place inhabited by both the righteous and the damned.
What is Sheol?
Known for stigmata and bi-location, this saint's most impressive charism may have been his willingness to refuse the granting of absolution.
Who is St. Pio (Padre Pio)?
This council responded to the Reformation by reforming clergy discipline and affirming doctrines like transubstantiation.
What is the Council of Trent?
He holds the record for the shortest tenure as pope. In his 13-days he instituted excommunication for anyone smoking in church.
Who is Pope Urban VII (1590)?
A powerful sacramental given by our Lady, she promised that whoever dies adorned with it would be protected from eternal flames.
What is the Brown Scapular?
Christ's raising on the cross was foreshadowed by Moses doing this to save the Israelites.
What is the raising of the bronze serpent?
This first U.S.-born saint founded the Sisters of Charity and opened America’s first free Catholic school in Maryland.
Who is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton?
This 4th-century heresy, led by a priest from Alexandria, denied Christ's divinity, prompting the addition of 'consubstantial' to our creed.
What is Arianism?
Elected in 1939 on the eve of WWII, he issued an encyclical condemning Nazism and saved thousands of Jews through secret networks.
Who is Pius XII?
This 19th-century devotion, based on apparitions to St. Catherine Labouré, involves a sacramental promising graces for those who wear it with confidence.
What is the Miraculous Medal?
This Greek term, literally meaning "knowledge," was a major heresy of the early Church that saw salvation through secret knowledge.
What is 'gnosis'?
This 13th-century Franciscan's sermons were so eloquent and powerful that he became known as 'the Hammer of Heretics'. His tongue remains incorrupt.
Who is St. Anthony of Padua?
Augustine spent 10 years with this heretical gnostic religion before leaving for Catholicism.
What is Manichaeism?
The only English pope, he reigned from 1154-1159 and clashed with Henry II over church privileges, leading to Thomas Becket's martyrdom.
Who is Adrian IV?
This devotion revealed to a French nun focuses on 5 properties of the risen Christ, and is powerful prayer for the reparation of sin and conversions.
What is the Chaplet o the Holy Wounds?
This description of early Christian life written around 100 AD, was among the 'Patristic Writings' once considered as canon, but ultimately not included.
What is the Didache?
This 3rd century Bishop was martyred in France. Tradition holds his corpse miraculously picked up his head and travelled several to his desired resting place, now the site of a Basilica named after him.
Who is St. Denis?