Lives of the Saints
This Brito-Roman saint was captured by pirates as a teenager and was held as a slave abroad for many years.
St. Patrick
This Roman physician is crediting with writing two books in the New Testament.
St. Luke
This Roman Emperor appointed his horse as a Senator and is also known by nickname 'Little Boots'.
Caligula
This group converted to Christianity in the 6th century when their king Clovis was baptized.
Franks
St. Peter was crucified next to an obelisk which stands in front of an Italian church on this large hill in Rome.
The Vatican
This woman was the mother of an emperor who traveled to the Holy Land and tried to recover the various relics related to the life of Christ.
St. Helena
This Jewish man wrote multiple letters in the New Testament to various churches in what is now Turkey.
St. Paul
This was the Roman Emperor at the time Christ was born, and had the month formerly called 'Sextillius' named after him.
Augustus
This group of Barbarians were famous for their destruction after taking control of North Africa, and demolishing the city of Hippo Regius while St. Augustine was dying.
Vandals
This was the largest church in Christianity until it was captured by the Turks in 1453 and turned into a mosque.
The Hagia Sophia.
This 4th century Egyptian man abandoned his home and lived in a cave in the desert for decades, founding the world's first Christian monastery.
St. Anthony
All the books of the New Testament are believed to have originally been written in this language.
Greek
This Roman Emperor conducted the most serious persecution of the Christians and has the term 'diocese' named after him.
Diocletian
Pope Leo I sent St. Augustine of Canterbury to these barbarian tribes in the 6th century two convert them to Christianity.
Anglo-Saxons
This Church in Paris is the Cathedral for its diocese and was the place of coronation for French kings since the 9th century.
Notre Dame de Paris
This Roman saint is regularly portrayed with a wreath with multiple lit candles on her head.
St. Lucy
The last book of the New Testament, which is its most controversial, was written by St. John the divine on Patmos island, and means 'exposure' in Greek.
Revelation
This Roman Emperor was the first to persecute Christians. He is also famous for intentional burning the city of Rome, conducting concerts lasting days where people who fake their own death to escape, and the murder of Sts. Peter and Paul.
Nero
Born Mawyn Succatus in the 5th century this saint is famous for his peaceful conversion of a whole nation, starting with the daughters of its High King.
St. Patrick
This church in Bethlehem was built by St. Helena on the alleged cave where Christ was said to have been born.
Church of the Nativity
These two brothers were doctors who offered free medical care in North Africa until their martyrdom.
Sts. Cosmos and Damien
St. Stephen is regarded as the first martyr of the church, as his death appears in the Acts of the Apostles. What does the word martyr mean in Greek?
Witness
This Roman Emperor was known for walking backwards through the streets of Rome with his favorite 200 lbs pet rock.
Heliogabalus
This barbarian group famously sacked Rome in 409 AD and were only stopped from destroying the whole of the city years later because of the Pope's intervention.
Goths
The bones of this famous Coptic saint were stolen from Alexandria, where he died, by Venetian sailors in the 8th century, and only returned by orders of the Vatican in the 20th century.
St. Mark