The Bronze Serpent
This place was the beautiful garden where Adam and Eve lived before they disobeyed God.
What is the Garden of Eden?
This object is carried by deacons during the Feast of the Cross and Palm Sunday processions.
What is the Cross?
This painful punishment was normally used for criminals, but Jesus chose it out of love for us.
What is crucifixion?
St. Anthony the Great was born in this city in Egypt.
What is Beni Suef.
This fisherman was the father of St. John the Beloved.
Who is Zebedee?
These creatures bit the Israelites in the wilderness until God told Moses to make a bronze one and lift it up.
What are serpents?
This person carries the censer while walking in the procession around the church.
Who is the priest?
This part of Jesus’ body was pierced by a soldier, proving He truly died.
What is His side?
St. Anthony the Great is known by this special title because he started monastic life.
What is the Father of the Monks?
This was the name of St. John’s brother, who followed Jesus with him.
Who is James?
This special object Moses lifted up on a pole saved anyone who looked at it after being bitten.
What is the bronze serpent?
During the Procession of the Cross, this number of Psalms and Gospels is read in different places around the church.
What is twelve?
This part of Jesus’ body stayed whole on the Cross, showing that His Church should stay united.
What are his bones?
This place is where St. Anthony first lived alone with God before moving deeper into the wilderness.
What is a small hut near the Nile River?
Before following Jesus, St. John and his brother worked in this profession.
What is fishing?
This is what entered the world when Adam and Eve disobeyed God, causing people to be separated from Him.
What is sin?
This word means “save us,” and the people shouted it when Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.
What is Hosanna?
This is what the Cross used to be a symbol of before Jesus turned it into victory and glory.
What is shame?
These were St. Anthony’s “spiritual weapons” that helped him fight the devil.
What are
prayer,
fasting,
reading the Bible,
and making the sign of the Cross?
Before following Jesus, St. John was first a disciple of this prophet.
Who is St. John the Baptist?
This person was “lifted up” on the Cross, just like the bronze serpent, to give eternal life to those who believe.
Who is Jesus Christ?
“These are the 12 places in the church where the Procession of the Cross stops to read each Gospel. Name them in order from the First Gospel to the Twelfth Gospel.”
What are…
Before the Main Sanctuary
Before the Icon of St. Mary
Before the Icon of Archangel Gabriel
Before the Icon of Archangel Michael
Before the Icon of St. Mark the Apostle
Before the Icon of the Apostles
Before the Icon of St. George
Before the Icon of St. Anthony (or another saint)
Before the Northern Door
Before the Baptismal Font
Before the Southern Door
Before the Icon of St. John the Baptist
The cross points in 4 directions, north, east, south, and west to show us this.
What is salvation for the whole world?
This saint was already living in the wilderness before St. Anthony and became his friend.
Who is St. Paul the First Hermit?
St. John also saw Jesus praying in this garden before the crucifixion.
What is Gethsemane.