Thanksgiving
This group of English settlers celebrated the first Thanksgiving in 1621 after their first successful harvest in the New World.
Who were the Pilgrims?
This Italian layman, who died at age 15 in 2006 from leukemia and built a website cataloging Eucharistic miracles, was canonized on 7 September 2025.
Who was Carlo Acutis?
The season of Advent first developed in the Church during this century, when Christians began preparing for Christmas with prayer and fasting.
What is the 4th century?
The Pilgrims celebrated the first Thanksgiving in this present-day U.S. state.
What is Massachusetts?
This Italian layman, beatified in 1990 and canonized in 2025, was known for his motto “Verso l’Alto” (“Toward the Heights”) and his devotion to climbing mountains while serving the poor.
Who was Pier Giorgio Frassati?
The Catholic liturgical Christmas season begins on Christmas Eve (December 24th) and ends on what Feast day?
What is the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord
Although early Thanksgivings were local events, this U.S. president proclaimed Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863 during the Civil War.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Known as the “Doctor of the Poor,” this Venezuelan physician-layman was canonized 19 October 2025 as the first saint from his country.
Who was José Gregorio Hernández?
The word Advent comes from the Latin adventus, meaning this — a term that also referred to the ceremonial arrival of a Roman emperor.
What is “coming” or “arrival”?
Members of this Native American tribe joined the Pilgrims at the 1621 feast and helped them survive their first harsh winter.
Who were the Wampanoag?
Canonised on February 11, 2024, this Argentine laywoman known as “Mama Antula” became the first female saint from Argentina and led Ignatian spiritual-exercises retreats barefoot.
Who is María Antonia de Paz y Figueroa?
The early Church emphasized two “comings” of Christ during Advent — one in Bethlehem and the other still to come. This second coming is also known by this Greek-derived term.
What is the Parousia?
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This Canadian-born religious sister, canonised in 2012, devoted her life to caring for leprosy patients on the Hawaiian island of Molokaʻi.
Who is Marianne Cope?
The current four-week structure of Advent was standardized in the 6th century by this Pope, who also revised the Church’s liturgical calendar.
Who was Pope Gregory I (Gregory the Great)?