Ante-Nicene Fathers
This bishop wrote seven letters while being taken to Rome for martyrdom, including a famous defense of the authority of bishops and the Eucharist.
Who is St. Ignatius of Antioch?
The mother of Jesus, this woman is called "blessed among women" in Luke's Gospel and is honored in the Church as the Mother of God.
Who is Mary?
This 1054 division between the churches of Rome and Constantinople is traditionally regarded as the split between Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.
What is the Great Schism?
This son of Jacob dreamed of sheaves of grain bowing down to his sheaf and later interpreted Pharaoh's dreams of cows and grain in Egypt.
Who is Joseph?
Though harshly treated, he submitted
and did not open his mouth;
Like a lamb led to slaughter
or a sheep silent before shearers,
he did not open his mouth.
What is Isaiah? (Isaiah 53:7)
This second-century bishop wrote Against Heresies in defense of apostolic tradition and against Gnostic teachings.
Who is St. Irenaeus of Lyons?
This woman prayed for a child at the sanctuary of Shiloh, and her son Samuel would become one of Israel's great prophets and judges.
Who is Hannah?
Founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1970, this traditionalist Catholic society became the center of controversy after unauthorized episcopal consecrations in 1988 and 2026.
What is the SSPX (Society of St. Pius X)?
This king of Israel received a dream at Gibeon in which God offered to grant him whatever he requested; he asked for "a listening heart to judge your people and to distinguish between good and evil."
Who is Solomon?
"This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”
What is Mark? (Mark 1:15)
This early Alexandrian scholar wrote On First Principles and produced extensive biblical commentaries; his ideas on topics such as the pre-existence of souls and the final restoration of creation later became subjects of theological controversy.
Who is Origen?
This woman of Jericho hid Israelite spies, helped them escape, and was later included among the ancestors of Jesus in Matthew's genealogy.
Who is Rahab?
This Christological controversy, associated with the Council of Ephesus, was named after the Archbishop of Constantinople who was accused of dividing Christ's human and divine natures.
What is Nestorianism?
This Babylonian king witnessed a mysterious message written on the wall during a feast, a divine warning interpreted by Daniel that foretold the fall of his kingdom.
Who is Belshazzar?
For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
What is Galatians? (Galatians 5:6)
This disciple of St. John the Apostle was the bishop of Smyrna and was martyred by being burned at the stake. He is remembered through a letter describing his final witness to Christ.
Who is St. Polycarp?
This woman from Thyatira, a seller of purple cloth, became one of the first recorded converts to Christianity in Europe and welcomed Paul into her home.
Who is Lydia?
This second-century movement, named after a wealthy teacher from Sinope, rejected the Old Testament's God as the same God revealed by Jesus and promoted a shortened canon of Christian writings.
What is Marcionism?
This judge of Israel overheard a Midianite soldier describe a dream in which a loaf of barley bread rolled into the enemy camp and overturned a tent.
Who is Gideon?
You have been told, O mortal, what is good,
and what the Lord requires of you:
Only to do justice and to love goodness,
and to walk humbly with your God.
What is Micah? (Micah 6:8)
This third-century theologian wrote the Apostolic Tradition, was involved in disputes over the papacy, and is considered by many historians to be the first antipope.
This woman from the time of the Judges killed the Canaanite commander Sisera by driving a tent peg through his head while he slept.
Who is Jael?
This medieval movement in southern France and elsewhere rejected the material world as evil, taught a strong form of dualism, and was suppressed during a Crusade from 1209–1229.
What is Catharism (or Albigensianism)?
According to tradition, this woman was the wife of Pontius Pilate and warned her husband after suffering in a dream because of Jesus.
Who is Procla?
The lost I will search out, the strays I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, and the sick I will heal; but the sleek and the strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them in judgment.
What is Ezekiel? (Ezekiel 34:16)