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 Zeal | eager desire for a person, cause, or object |
| Empirical | on example relying on what one knows from observation or experiment |
| Monstrance | a vessel in which the consecrated host is exposed |
| Shroud of Turin | cloth that Jesus was buried in |
| Divinity | God's state of holiness |
| Vatican | the place where the Pope lives |
| Communion of Saints | all people in past and present in the church |
| Idolatry | the worshiping of a false god |
| The three dimensions of the Church | the Church in Perfection, Purgation, and Pilgrimage |
| The Church in Perfection | people who have completed their earthly lives and are now in heaven |
| The Church in Purgation | people in purgatory; we cleanse ourselves of our sins so we can follow Jesus |
| The Church on Pilgrimage | we as a Church on earth on our journey in union to eternal life |
| St. Augustine | saw a boy in front of him who had dug a hole in the sand and was going out to the sea again and again and bringing some water to pour into the hole. Asked him, "What are you doing?" "I'm going to pour the entire ocean into this hole." "That is impossible, the whole ocean will not fit in the hole you have made" he said. The boy replied, "And you cannot fit the Trinity in your tiny little brain." The story concludes by saying that the boy vanished as the saint had been talking to an angel. |
| God is eternal | To God time is always in the present so he lives forever |
| God's existence | there has to be something that started creation |
| Value in other religions | there is good in all religions and Catholics see that |
| Mystical | meaning spiritual or invisible (not magical) |
| Saints Purpose | Saints are role models for us to follow |
| Faith | not the result of human efforts, is a gift from God |
| Canonization | for the present life of the Church |
| Canonization | says person eternally united with God in heaven |
| Venerable | life of heroic virtue |
| Miracle | from saint candidate God asked for a sign that person is in heaven |
| Blessed | Worthy of public cult in a limited way |
| Martyr | died a cruel death |
| Martyr | accepted death |
| Martyr | death out of hatred of the faith |
| Martyr | become blessed and only one miracle needed |
| Canonization | doesn't make one a saint, just recognizes as saint |
| Canonization | starts by people in local city taking person's name to local bishop so investigation can begin |
| Canonization | if case has merit formal process begins and information sent to Rome for study |
| St. Benedict | was known as the Hermit |
| St. Benedict | was born in 480 ad, lived in Rome |
| St. Benedict | went to Rome to study but revolted by society so lived in solitude and prayer |
| St. Benedict | was 67 when he died, foretold his death |
| St. Benedict | united different monks under one rule |
| St. Benedict | cured lepers, poisoned, drove out devils |
| St. Benedict | is the father of Western Monasticism |
| St. Benedict | was the brother of St. Scholastica |
| St. Benedict | was patron saint of Europe |
| St. Benedict | was patron saint of Monks |
| St. Benedict | was patron saint of Architecture |
| St. Benedict | monks tried to murder him, but he when he blessed chalice it broke |
| St. Benedict | founded the Benedictine order |
| St. Benedict | lived in Monte Cassino |
| St. Benedict | feast day July 11 |
| St. Benedict | wrote a rule for Monks to follow that showed importance of work, community, and prayer |
| St. Benedict | broke a poisoned chalice with the sign of the cross |
| St. Benedict | lived in the woods for three years |
| St. Benedict | got all his food for three years from a basket lowered down to him. |
| St. Francis | born Italy 1181 |
| St. Francis | during youth not serious |
| St. Francis | father was successful cloth merchant |
| St. Francis | was a soldier |
| St. Francis | gets captured during war |
| St. Francis | was the first person to get the stigmata |
| St. Francis | saint of nature, Italy, merchants, ecologists |
| St. Francis | in love with Lady Poverty |
| St. Francis | October 4, 1226 is when died |
| St. Francis | St. Claire follows way of life; she started the Ppoor Claire's |
| St. Francis | Feast day is October 4 |
| St. Francis | Started the Franciscan order |
| St. Francis | was a monk |
| St. Francis | father took inheritance |
| St. Francis | saw God in all creation |
| St. Francis | reenacted the nativity scene |
| St. Francis | Loved animals |
| St. Francis | before he died he was brought back to San Dominica where St. Claire saw him |
| St. Francis | Predicted that he would grow ill and die |
| St. Francis | while praying heard God say "Repair my house" |
| St. Francis | sold father's goods and used money for Church |
| St. Francis | renounced father for Father in Heaven |
| St. Francis | took vow of absolutely poverty |
| St. Francis | went to Rome for approval for rule. Was told no but then Pope had dream and approved rule |
| St. Eugene | Born: France, 1782 |
| St. Eugene | Death: May 21, 1861 |
| St. Eugene | Feast day: May 21st |
| St. Eugene | Fled from France in 1790 because of the French revolution |
| St. Eugene | fled to Italy then lost all of his money and his family split up after he went to Sisley |
| St. Eugene | saw the poverty of the French countryside and he preached to the poor, people in jail, and took sacraments to the sick |
| St. Eugene | mission to help others first become human, then Christian, then saints. But he believed that one first had to become a saint in order to help others become saints |
| St. Eugene | people say that when he preached he spoke with a firey passion |
| St. Eugene | when he spoke he spoke in a way that people of the lower class would understand he wouldn't speak very sophisticated |
| St. Eugene | as Bishop still walked the streets and served poor |
| St. Eugene | community was asked to send missionary priests to Canada and the rest of the world |
| St. Eugene | was ordained bishop February 26th |
| St. Eugene | canonized December 3rd 1995 |
| St. Eugene | patron of dysfunctional families |
| St. Eugene | takes over the Carmelite convent to start the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate |
| St. Angela | born in Italy in 1470 |
| St. Angela | created first teaching order for girls |
| St. Angela | orphaned as a young age and lived with well-to-do uncle |
| St. Angela | feast day-January 27th |
| St. Angela | 1525 made Pilgrimage to Rome. The Pope asked her to care for the incurable ill. She declined so that she could return to her work at home |
| St. Angela | saw the religious ignorance of young girls and began to educate them in the truths of the faith |
| St. Angela | patron of loss of parents and sick |
| St. Angela | as a teen dedicated life to God and became member of the third order of St. Francis |
| St. Angela | four years after death congregation recognized as religious woman |
| St. Angela | in 1531 she wrote a rule for life for her community the Company of St. Ursula |
| St. Angela | had a vision to start an order and so formed a community of women |
| St. Angela | believed work only bring forth fruits of salvation if grounded in love and zeal for souls |
| Saint Ignatius | Born in Northern Spain, 1491 |
| Saint Ignatius | Jesuits, Society of Jesus. |
| Saint Ignatius | father was a wealthy nobleman |
| Saint Ignatius | while recuperating, read books about saints and Jesus |
| Saint Ignatius | was overly scrupulous and worried about making the "perfect" confession |
| Saint Ignatius | Ssw emptiness of the world and realized only God could bring contentment to one's soul |
| Saint Ignatius | Patron of retreats, soldiers, and spiritual exercises |
| Saint Ignatius | Feat Day: July 31 |
| Saint Ignatius | moto: Everything is done to the greater Glory of GOD |
| Saint Ignatius | got shot in the leg by a cannon, while in the army |
| Saint Ignatius | went to the Benedictine to confess ALL of his sins |
| Saint Ignatius | 1528- Traveled to Paris by foot with six other men including St. Francis Xavier. They took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience |
| Saint Ignatius | saw the world as a battlefield and defended the Catholic Church against the Reformation |
| Saint Ignatius | has visions of Mary holding Jesus while at the shrine of Our Lady of Montserrat |
| Saint Ignatius | traveled to the Holy Land, but Franciscans wanted him to return to Spain so he doesn't get kidnapped by the Muslims he was trying to convert. |
| Saint Ignatius | Wrote Spiritual Exercises |