Saints Pt. 2
This Franciscan priest volunteered to take the place of another prisoner condemned to death at Auschwitz.
Who is St. Maximilian Kolbe?
This is the name of the mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments.
What is Mount Sinai?
This sacrament is received by men ordained as deacons, priests, or bishops.
What is Holy Orders?
These are the mysteries of the Rosary that focus on Jesus' suffering and death.
What are the Sorrowful Mysteries?
This is the name of the liturgical season celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus, lasting 50 days.
What is the Easter Season?
This saint founded the Missionaries of Charity and received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Who is St. Teresa of Calcutta (Mother Teresa)?
Jesus told the parable of this man who was beaten by robbers and helped by a stranger from a neighboring people.
What is The Good Samaritan?
This is the name of the teaching that the Eucharist is truly the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Jesus Christ.
What is the Real Presence?
This is the name of the feast celebrated on March 25, commemorating the angel Gabriel's announcement to Mary.
What is the Annunciation?
This is the name of the gathering of cardinals responsible for electing a new pope.
What is a conclave?
This saint, the patron saint of priests, spent long hours hearing confessions in the French village of Ars.
Who is St. John Vianney?
This is the name of the river where Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist.
What is the Jordan River?
These are the three conditions traditionally required for a sin to be considered mortal.
What is grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent.
This Marian apparition in 1858 involved a young girl named Bernadette Soubirous, to whom Mary identified herself as the Immaculate Conception.
Who is Our Lady of Lourdes?
This is the name of the council held in the 16th century in response to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the Council of Trent?
This saint is known for translating the Bible into Latin, producing the translation known as the Vulgate.
Who is St. Jerome?
The seven books of the Old Testament are included in the Catholic Bible but not in most Protestant Bibles.
These are the two main sources through which the Catholic Church receives and passes on divine revelation.
What are Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition?
Who are Mary's parents?
On the Feast of St. Blaise, these objects are crossed and held near the throat during a special blessing.
What are two blessed candles?
This early Church Father, known as the "Hammer of Heretics," defended Christ's divinity against Arianism and was bishop of Alexandria.
Who is St. Athanasius?
In the Old Testament, this priest and king of Salem offered bread and wine to Abraham and is later referenced as a figure of Christ's priesthood.
Who is Melchizedek?
This is the term for the Church's official teaching authority, exercised by the Pope and bishops in communion with him.
What is the Magisterium?
This Latin title, meaning "queen of Heaven", is associated with Mary's queenship and is also the name of a Marian antiphon traditionally prayed during the Easter season.
What is Regina Caeli?
This is the name of the traditional prayer recited or sung at the conclusion of Eucharistic Adoration and Benediction.
What is the Tantum Ergo?