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Despite the efforts of Pope St. Leo, The Vandals plundered Rome in this year.
What is 455?
She is St. Augustine's mother, a formative influence on his conversion.
Honorius's move to this city made it a city of great importance for the Roman Empire of the West.
What is Ravenna?
What is Arianism?
He was assassinated by Honorius despite having worked to protect and train his ward after Honorius's father died.
Who is Stilicho?
This year is both the year St. Ambrose died and the year when the Biblical Canon was adopted.
What is 397?
Theodosius made a public confession of his sins to this Bishop of Milan.
Who is St. Ambrose?
This Emperor worked with Theodoric in an attempt to take back the Western Empire.
Who is Emperor Zeno?
This is what Clotilde said Clovis could not do without calling upon the grace of Christ God.
What is winning a battle?
He came to power as the 'Last Western Emperor' through the bribery of his father, Orestes.
Who is Romulus Augustus?
St. Jerome was commissioned to translate the Bible into the Vulgate in this year.
What is 382?
*** DOUBLE JEOPARDY ***
It took eight days for St. Ambrose to go from this status to being and ordained Bishop.
What is a Catechumen?
Theodoric became the ruled of these two united tribes due to his daughter's marriage of a man from another tribal ethnicity.
Who are the Visigoths and Ostrogoths?
This historical-mythical figure inspired the name for the rulers of the royal lineage among the Franks.
Who is Merovech?
They traveled from the North, went through the West of the Empire (Hispania), crossed into North Africa, and took over the major cities of Hippo and Carthage.
Who are the Vandals?
*** DOUBLE JEOPARDY ***
This is the year that St. Augustine was ordained Bishop of Hippo.
What is 395?
He bargained with Attila the Hun to protect his people from being attacked as they had been some 42 years earlier.
Who is Pope St. Leo the Great?
Clovis married the princess from this group to integrate it with his Frankish Kingdom.
Who are the Burgundians?
This was the Persian philosophy St. Augustine subscribed to before becoming a Christian.
What is Manicheanism?
This major event in the Church's history was committed against them in 410 by the Visigoths under the direction of Alaric.
What is the Sack of Rome?
What is 477?
He commissioned the translation of the Bible into the Vulgate.
He rejected Stilicho's request for military support.
Who is Arcadius?
These mythical creatures are thought to be imaginative descriptions of the fearsome Huns.
What are centaurs?
This title was given to the leader of various Gothic and Germanic military powers that were contracted by the shrinking Western power confined within Ravenna.
What is the "Master of Horses"?