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Vocab
100
Was a Sudanese-born former slave who became a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy. She was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is St. Josephine Bakhita?
100
Criticism of atheism was strictly forbidden and sometimes led to imprisonment. Confiscated church property, ridiculed religion, harassed believers, and propagated atheism in the schools.
What is communism?
100
Met his martyrdom by being fed to wild beasts. He wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of very early Christian theology.
Who is Ignatius of Antioch?
100
An indirect outcome of Diocletian's persecutions. Christian sect within the Roman province of Africa that flourished in the 4th and 5th centuries among Berber Christians.
What is Donatism?
100
Large stadium where persecutions were held
What is a coliseum?
200
She was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to the Roman Catholic Church and became a Discalced Carmelite nun
Who is Edith Stein?
200
Sought to unify their nation through an authoritarian state that promoted the mass mobilization of the national community. Veneration of the state, a devotion to a strong leader, and an emphasis on ultranationalism and militarism.
What is Fascism?
200
First Apostolic Father of the Church. Consecrated by Saint Peter, and he is known to have been a leading member of the church in Rome in the late 1st century.
Who is Saint Clement of Rome?
200
The world of the demiurge is represented by the lower world. The world of God is represented by the upper world, and is associated with the soul and perfection. The world of God is eternal and not part of the physical.
What is Gnosticism?
200
Underground cemeteries consisting of a subterranean galleries with recesses for tombs, as constructed by the ancient Romans.
What are catacombs?
300
Canonized on 10 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and declared a martyr of charity. He is the patron saint of drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. John Paul II declared him "The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century".
Who is Maximilian Kolbe?
300
An ideology that demands man's complete adherence to the sacred law of Islam and rejects as much as possible outside influence, with some exceptions.
What is Islamism?
300
An early Church Father and apologist. His writings were formative in the early development of Christian theology.
Who is Irenaeus of Lyons?
300
The Son of God did not always exist, but was created by and is therefore distinct from God the Father.
What is Arianism?
300
Name given to apostates in the early Christian Church, when Christians were persecuted by the Roman authorities to renounce their faith.
What is a Lapsi?
400
A Roman Catholic priest from Poland. He was murdered by three agents of the Polish communist internal intelligence agency.
Who was Father Popieluszko?
400
Widespread and systematic persecutions
What were Edicts of Decius persecutions?
400
Became a bishop after converting to Christianity in 249. A controversial figure during his lifetime, his strong pastoral skills, firm conduct during the Novatianist heresy and outbreak of the plague, and eventual martyrdom at Carthage vindicated his reputation and proved his sanctity in the eyes of the Church.
Who is Cyprian of Carthage?
400
Belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid
What is Pelagianism?
400
Certificates of indulgence, in which the confessors or martyrs interceded for apostate Christians
What is Libelli?
500
A bishop of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He became the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding Luis Chávez, and spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations and torture. He was assassinated while offering Mass.
Who was Oscar Romero?
500
Martyrdom of Peter and Paul. Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem.
What were Nero's persecutions?
500
Lived a life of rigid asceticism. Scholar and early Christian theologian
Who is Origen of Alexandria?
500
Ascetic Christian sect. Goes with Benedictine. Promotes suicide and human mutilation.
What is Montanism?
500
One who abandons their religion.
What is an apostate?