Saint Denis
Saint John Leonardi
Pope Saint John XXIII
Pope Saint Callistus
Saint Teresa of Ávila
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Saint Denis is one of the patron saints of this country, sometimes known as the Eldest Daughter of the Church.
France
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Saint John Leonardi was born in the Republic of Lucca in 1541, which 320 years later, would become a part of this country.
Italy
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Pope Saint John XXIII's feast day marks the anniversary of the opening of the first session of this.
Second Vatican Council
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Shortly after being ordained a deacon by Pope Zephyrinus, Pope Saint Callixtus was made superintendent of one of these underground cemeteries.
Catacombs
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Saint Teresa of Ávila co-founded, with Saint John of the Cross, this "shoeless" order of Carmelites.
Discalced Carmelites
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Owing to a legend about his martyrdom, Saint Denis falls into the obscure category of cephalophores, or people who carried their own this.
Head
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Saint John Leonardi was an advocate of the Forty Hours devotion, which, as the name suggests, consists of forty hours of prayer before this.
The Blessed Sacrament (in solemn exposition)
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During this conflict, Pope Saint John XXIII was drafted into the Royal Italian Army. He served as a stretcher bearer and chaplain.
World War I
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An innovation of Pope Saint Callixtus was to grant absolution to repentant murderers and adulterers. To justify this, he cited his power to bind and to do this.
Loose
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Saint Teresa of Ávila wrote a book, "The Interior..." one of these fortified medieval structures, as a guide to the spiritual life for her Carmelite sisters.
Castle
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The legend tells us that Saint Denis, after being beheaded, collected his head, and began to walk several miles from Paris while preaching a sermon. The place where he finally stopped is now in this town.
Saint Denis
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Owing to this profession for which he trained before entering the priesthood, Saint John Leonardi's iconography depicts him with a mortar and pestle.
Pharmacist
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The lion on Pope Saint John XXIII's coat of arms is a nod to his time as Patriarch of this northern Italian city.
Venice
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Due to accusations of laxity against Pope Saint Callixtus, another man, Hippolytus, was elected as a rival bishop of Rome, making him the first one of these.
Antipope
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Her reforms met with determined opposition and interest from this organization charged with maintaining Catholic orthodoxy in Spain. However, no charges were laid against her.
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Owing in part to the derivation of his name, Saint Denis is sometimes confused with Dionysius who, the Books of Acts tells us, served as a judge at this court in Athens.
Areopagus
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Saint John Leonardi was canonized in 1938 by this predecessor of Pope Saint Pius XII.
Pope Blessed Pius XI
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Pope Saint John XXIII died two months after completing this encyclical, the Latin title of which translates to "Peace on Earth".
Pacem in terris
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Pope Saint Callixtus died as a martyr, in spite of living during the reign of Emperor Severus Alexander, whose mother practiced this religion.
Christianity
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This French saint, famous for her "Little Way", is named after Saint Teresa of Ávila. Mother Theresa, in turn, chose her name after this saint.
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
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The etymology of the place Saint Denis' martyrdom, Montmartre, in Paris, may have come to us from the Latin for "mount of" this Roman god. However, many now believe it means "mount of martyrs".
Mars
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In 1574, Saint John Leonardi founded a group charged with deepening Christian faith and devotion as part of the wider movement of revival, known as this, that is said to have begun with the Council of Trent.
Counter-Reformation
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Pope Francis canonized Pope John XXIII on 27 April 2014 alongside this other pope.
Pope Saint John Paul II.
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Today, Pope Saint Callixtus is the patron of people who work in these places.
Cemeteries
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In 1970, Pope Saint Paul VI, in recognition of her significant contribution to theology gave Saint Teresa of Ávila this title, making her the first woman to be so honored.
Doctor of the Church
("Doctor of Prayer")