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Catholicism - Jesus and Some Key Catholics

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  • Q1
    Starting out, indeed, from this 'key' image, which Saint ~ the very first Apostle, who spoke up on the day of Pentecost ~ effectively became the first Pope, and is the patron of the Vatican Church (having been given 'the keys of the kingdom', as Jesus told him when he confessed His Messiahship)?
    Peter
    Mark
    Paul
    John
    30s
  • Q2
    The Church includes a number of monastic orders, i.e. monastery and nunnery institutions where keen believers take vows and live in fellowship and service to each other and the wider world, through prayer, scholarship and active charitable works or any combination of such devotions. One of the most major among these orders are the Benedictines (after St Benedict). How far back does the order's foundation date?
    To around the middle of the mediaeval period, roughly contemporary with Britain's Domesday Book &/or Magna Carta
    Almost 3/4 of the Christian era, to around 529 CE
    To the counter-Reformation in the 16th Century
    To the Age of Enlightenment (i.e. about 200-250 years)
    30s
  • Q3
    Another broadly comparable order are the Franciscans, named for St Francis of Assisi who began preaching (un-licensed) in 1209. With which of the following causes or entities is he NOT associated as a Patron?
    Animals and the environment
    France
    Italy
    California
    30s
  • Q4
    Let's backtrack a little and consider 'canonisation': the formal mechanism by which an inspirational Catholic believer might in due course become a Saint. As of the papal decree of 1983, which of these outlines is correct?
    'Venerable' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Servant of God' ; 'Saint'
    'Servant of God' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Saint'
    'Blessed' ; 'Servant of God' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Saint'
    'Servant of God' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Saint'
    30s
  • Q5
    There is, of course, meanwhile, an actual Society of Jesus ~ a male order more often known as the Jesuits ~ founded in Paris in 1534 (at that time when the Reformation was convulsing European thought, worship and observance) ... by whom?
    St Blaise of Ragusa
    St Boniface of Fulda
    St Denis
    St Ignatius of Loyola
    30s
  • Q6
    Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Kolkata), not without humility and reluctance, was an iconic figure in that city and worldwide in the later 20th century on account of her work with the poor and destitute; she was declared a Saint by Pope Francis in 2016. In 1950 she had founded the Missionaries of Charity which now include not far short of 5,000 'sisters' across some 2/3 of the nations of the world; according to Wikipedia her citizenship status was changed some half-a-dozen times over the course of her 87 years, but what was her ethnicity by birth and early upbringing?
    Hungarian
    Bulgarian
    Albanian
    Czech
    30s
  • Q7
    At a ceremony on 10 October 1982, Pope John Paul II (himself later canonised by his successor) formally declared Maximilian Kolbe to be 'the Patron Saint of our Difficult Century': Kolbe had been a Franciscan friar and active in resistance against the Nazis. How and where did he die?
    He volunteered to be hanged in place of another inmate at Buchenwald
    He was gassed at Treblinka
    He was killed by lethal injection at Auschwitz after outlasting 9 other prisoners in punitive confinement
    He was shot dead while semi-secretly celebrating Mass on Lady Day at Dachau
    30s
  • Q8
    The name of St John Vianney (1786-1859) is commemorated on churches and other institutions worldwide: he exercised his ministry in other turbulent times ... principally in which country?
    France
    Belgium
    Indonesia
    Ireland
    30s
  • Q9
    Hildegard of Bingen ~ Benedictine abbess, scholar, composer-musician, and regarded by the Germans as the founder of methodical natural history ~ lived died in 1179 at the age of 81 and was beatified in 1326. For various (mostly arcane) reasons she was not canonised until as recently as ... ?
    2014
    2013
    2012
    2011
    30s
  • Q10
    Who is the patron saint of all Catholic educational establishments?
    St Edmund of Abingdon
    St Richard of Chichester
    St Dominic
    St Thomas Aquinas
    30s

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