This GCSE RE quiz on Catholicism will test your knowledge of Jesus and some key Catholics. At any one time there will of course be many ‘key Catholics’ active, from the current Pope downwards; but looking back over virtually two millennia of the Church, plenty of past as well as present figures stand out. The Church itself recognises its own inspirational people by beatifying them, i.e. making them Saints, for which there is an established procedure; they fetch up, effectively, ranked alongside the Disciples and Apostles (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Peter, Paul et al.).
It was St Teresa of Avila, who lived in the interesting times of the Reformation (the Protestant schism from Catholicism), who made the famous observation that ‘Christ hath no body now on earth but ours: no hands (etc.)’, i.e. that since Jesus’ resurrection, God’s only active agency ~ through the power of the Holy Spirit ~ is the collective and individual deeds of believers.
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Such people, however humble, would profess to be touched and sustained by God’s grace; the label ‘saint’ essentially means ‘one who is sacred, holy or set apart’ within the wicked and wayward world. Their lives and work can be a blessing to other beings such as the sick and marginalised, or even animals (cf. St Francis of Assisi), and the rest of us can recognise and draw inspiration from their piety, dedication, patience, generosity etc.
This quiz will invite you to look at a variety of historical and more recent Saints, identified and honoured by the Church for having conducted their earthly lives in sacrificial accordance with the principle of ‘What would Jesus do?’ and usually in a sense of particular and close harmony with Himself through prayer and study. In accordance with our framework, these seem best to fit the definition of ‘some key Catholics’!
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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)? |
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Paul |
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John |
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Peter |
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Mark |
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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? |
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Almost 3/4 of the Christian era, to around 529 CE |
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To around the middle of the mediaeval period, roughly contemporary with Britain's Domesday Book &/or Magna Carta |
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To the counter-Reformation in the 16th Century |
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To the Age of Enlightenment (i.e. about 200-250 years) |
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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? |
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Animals and the environment |
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Italy |
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California |
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France |
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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? |
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'Servant of God' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Saint' |
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'Blessed' ; 'Servant of God' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Saint' |
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'Venerable' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Servant of God' ; 'Saint' |
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'Servant of God' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Saint' |
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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? |
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St Ignatius of Loyola |
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St Blaise of Ragusa |
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St Boniface of Fulda |
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St Denis |
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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? |
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Albanian |
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Bulgarian |
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Czech |
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Hungarian |
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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? |
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He was gassed at Treblinka |
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He volunteered to be hanged in place of another inmate at Buchenwald |
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He was killed by lethal injection at Auschwitz after outlasting 9 other prisoners in punitive confinement |
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He was shot dead while semi-secretly celebrating Mass on Lady Day at Mauthausen |
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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? |
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France |
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Ireland |
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Belgium |
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Indonesia |
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Hildegard of Bingen ~ Benedictine abbess, scholar, composer-musician, and regarded by the Germans as the founder of methodical natural history ~ 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 ... ? |
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2011 |
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2012 |
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2013 |
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2014 |
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Who is the patron saint of all Catholic educational establishments? |
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St Dominic |
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St Richard of Chichester |
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St Edmund of Abingdon |
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St Thomas Aquinas |
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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)? |
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Paul |
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John |
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Peter |
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Mark |
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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? |
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Almost 3/4 of the Christian era, to around 529 CE |
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To around the middle of the mediaeval period, roughly contemporary with Britain's Domesday Book &/or Magna Carta |
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To the counter-Reformation in the 16th Century |
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To the Age of Enlightenment (i.e. about 200-250 years) |
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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? |
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Animals and the environment |
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Italy |
| [ ] |
California |
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France |
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4.
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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? |
|
| [ ] |
'Servant of God' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Saint' |
| [ ] |
'Blessed' ; 'Servant of God' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Saint' |
| [ ] |
'Venerable' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Servant of God' ; 'Saint' |
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'Servant of God' ; 'Venerable' ; 'Blessed' ; 'Saint' |
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5.
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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? |
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| [x] |
St Ignatius of Loyola |
| [ ] |
St Blaise of Ragusa |
| [ ] |
St Boniface of Fulda |
| [ ] |
St Denis |
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6.
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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? |
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Albanian |
| [ ] |
Bulgarian |
| [ ] |
Czech |
| [ ] |
Hungarian |
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7.
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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? |
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| [ ] |
He was gassed at Treblinka |
| [ ] |
He volunteered to be hanged in place of another inmate at Buchenwald |
| [x] |
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 Mauthausen |
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8.
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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? |
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| [x] |
France |
| [ ] |
Ireland |
| [ ] |
Belgium |
| [ ] |
Indonesia |
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9.
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Hildegard of Bingen ~ Benedictine abbess, scholar, composer-musician, and regarded by the Germans as the founder of methodical natural history ~ 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 ... ? |
|
| [ ] |
2011 |
| [x] |
2012 |
| [ ] |
2013 |
| [ ] |
2014 |
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10.
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Who is the patron saint of all Catholic educational establishments? |
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| [ ] |
St Dominic |
| [ ] |
St Richard of Chichester |
| [ ] |
St Edmund of Abingdon |
| [x] |
St Thomas Aquinas |
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