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St.Thomas and St. Albert
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What person started the Catholic Church?
Jesus
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Who wrote a rule for Monks that standardized monasticism in Europe?
Saint Benedict
100
What were the three vows that the mendicants took?
Poverty, Chastity, Obedience.
100
What was St. Francis’s life like before starting the Franciscan order?
He was a rich knight, who liked to party.
100
What order did St. Thomas Aquinas’s family want him to join?
The Benedictine order
200
Peter helped establish the Church in what great city?
Rome
200
What “relocation” in the 300s AD was of significance for the relationships of Church and state, and it eventually contributed to the Orthodox Schism?
Constantine moved to Constantinople.
200
What is the difference between the Evangelical Councils and the 10 Commandments?
The vows are not required to be a Christian. (The Commandments are required by all.)
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After his conversion, what did St. Francis do when encountering a leper?
He embraced the leper (kissed him)
200
What is St. Thomas Aquinas’s most famous theological work?
The Summa Theologica
300
What happens at both Jesus’ baptism, and at Pentecost?
The Holy Spirit descends
300
With what is the date 1054 AD associated?
The Schism between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches.
300
What is the original name for the Dominicans, which indicates their work?
The Order of PREACHERS.
300
The bother friars of St. Thomas Aquinas teased him by saying to look out the window at what?
A cow jumping over the moon.
300
St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas studied which ancient non-Christian philosopher?
Aristotle
400
What is the title for the saints/holy men in the early Church who gave sound doctrine in accord with the Church’s Tradition?
Father of the Church
400
This doctor and father of the Church wrote "City of God"
St.Augustine.
400
Like St. Francis, St. Clair wanted her order’s rule to explicitly state what?
The order was to own nothing
400
This saint cut down Thor's Oak tree in Germany as a way of convincing the pagans that their religion was false.
St. Boniface
400
St. Albert the Great studied what in addition to theology and philosophy?
Science (or math, or chemistry, or botany... all sciences.)
500
The word "didache" means what?
"Teaching"
500
This is the person who spread St. Benedict's rule throughout much of Europe in the 800s.
Charlemage (or Charles the Great)
500
The word "Mendicant" means what?
Beggar (or Begging,or "to beg")
500
Where and how was St. Peter killed?
He was crucified up-side-down in Rome (on Vatican Hill).
500
St. Thomas Aquinas was nicknamed this by his class mates.
The dumb ox.