Sparks of Faith Trivia Challenge

In the year 1223, a deacon, was visiting the town of Grecio to celebrate Christmas. He realized that the chapel of the hermitage would be too small to hold the congregation for Midnight Mass. So he found a niche in the rock near the town square and set up the altar. Then he prepared a manger, and brought hay, and an ox and an ass. This was the first Christmas Manger scene or Créche. Who was this saintly man?

St Ciaran of Ireland who is also famous for living in the woods with a boar, a wolf, a fox, a badger, a deer and many birds.

St. Roche who is also known as the patron saint of dogs

St. Francis of Assisi who was famously known to preach to the animals. He once persuaded a wolf to stop attacking the town’s people of Agobio if they promised to feed the wolf for the rest of his life.

Many miracles are attributed to this saint, including saving her hometown from the army of Frederick II; she also defended her convent by carrying the Ciborium (containing the Sacred Hosts) or Monstrance against an attack by Saracens. Nearing her death, she had visions of the Mass from her bed, hence she was made the patroness of modern television.

St. Teresa of Avila

St. Clare of Assisi

St. Thérèse of Lisieux

"On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, A partridge in a pear tree..." According to a Roman Catholic symbolic interpretation, who does the partridge and the pear tree represent in the carol "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?

Jesus and the Cross

Eve and the Apple Tree

St. Nicholas and the Christmas Tree

This person was a renowned actor and playwright, the leader of a popular acting troupe during the reign of Emperor Diocletian. To research for a play mocking the Sacrament of Baptism, he went to a priest pretending to desire baptism and was fully instructed as a catechumen. On performance day the Emperor was present. He played the lead character seeking baptism, and the rite was performed in such a ludicrous manner that all present laughed. As the water was poured over his head by an actor playing the priest’s part, he saw a vision of the heavens opened and the hand of God touching him. He also saw an angel who showed him that his many sins had been washed away through the valid baptism he had just received. At that moment his heart was changed by the Holy Spirit and he believed in the truth of Christianity. At the conclusion of the play he boldly declared his new faith, recounting how he had been a scoffer until that moment. He implored the audience, including the Emperor, to follow Christ. The crowd thought this was all part of the performance cheered him on, but once they understood that it was real, he was seized. The Emperor, furious, subjected him to cruel tortures daily to make him renounce his faith in Christ. He staunchly refused and was killed. The Christians collected his body and buried him with the other martyrs. Who is this saint?

St. Genesius of Rome

St. Sebastian

St. Philip Neri - Apostle of Rome

This famous painting measures 460 cm × 880 cm (180 in × 350 in) and covers an end wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. In 1796, French revolutionary anti-clerical troops used the refectory as an armory and stable; they threw stones at the painting and climbed ladders to scratch out the eyes of people in the painting. In 1800, the room was flooded with two feet of water after a heavy rainstorm. The refectory was also used as a prison at one point. During World War II, on 15 August 1943, the refectory was struck by Allied bombing; protective sandbagging prevented the painting from being struck by bomb splinters but it may have been damaged by the vibration. Do you know which painting we are talking about?

Coronation of the Virgin by Diego Velázquez

Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

This prophet's name means 'My God is Yahweh'. God performed many miracles through this prophet, including resurrection (bringing back to life the dead son of a widow) and bringing fire down from the sky to defeat false prophets. Who is he?

Prophet Jeremiah

Prophet Elijah

Prophet Isaiah

In the Gospel of John, seven of the disciples—Peter, Thomas, Nathanael, the sons of Zebedee (James and John), and two others – decided to go fishing one evening after the Resurrection of Jesus, but caught nothing that night. Early the next morning, Jesus (whom they had not recognised) called out to them from the shore: "Friends, haven't you any fish?" When they replied that they had caught none, Jesus responded: "Throw your net on the right side of the boat and you will find some". After doing so they were unable to haul the net in because of the large number of fish that they found had been miraculously caught in the net. How many did they catch?

100

153

500

The book of Daniel tells the story of three young men who defy the mighty King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. They refused to serve the king’s false gods, and they refused to worship the golden statue the king himself had set up. For this they were thrown into a fiery furnace. However God was with them and the fire did not even touch their clothes. Nebuchadnezzar was astonished that the fire did not have any effect on them. He was even more amazed when he saw not three, but a fourth person with them: "Look!" the king said, "I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire; and they are not hurt, and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God". What are the names of these three holy young men who loved God so much?

Daniel, Michael and Samuel

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego

Daniel, Shadrach and Abednego

He was a tentmaker by profession. Seven relatives of this missionary are mentioned in the New Testament. They are Andronicus and Junia, Jason, Sosipater and Lucius. There is also mention of his sister and his nephew who helped him in prison. Once when he was traveling to Rome his boat was shipwrecked on the island of Malta. He survived the wreck but was bitten by poisonous snake while setting up a camp. Everyone thought he would die but he was saved by The Lord. Who are we talking about?

St. Philip

St. Mattias

St. Paul

As a physician himself, he is now the patron saint of doctors and medical persons He died in Boeotica in Greece in around 84AD. He is often shown with an ox or a calf because these are the symbols of sacrifice — the sacrifice Jesus made for all the world. Who is he?

St. Mark

St. Luke

St. John

He was a bishop and doctor of the church. He is called the "Father of Orthodoxy," the "Pillar of the Church" and "Champion of Christ's Divinity." He was the first person to identify the same 27 books of the New Testament that are in use today. By 361 AD he had converted many pagans causing the priests of the idols in Egypt to write to the Emperor Julian. They wrote that if this bishop remained, idolatry would perish in Egypt. The heathen Emperor ordered the bihop's death. The bishop meanwhile had taken a boat up the Nile. When he learned that the royal soldiers were close to overtaking his boat, he had his men turn back to meet the soldiers. The soldiers did not know what the bishop looked like and so as their boat passed him, they asked him if he had seen the 'bishop'. "He is not far, if you speed up you will catch him" answered the saint. The soldiers raced on without realizing who they had just spoken to. Who is this?

St. Anthony of Egypt

St. Athanasius of Alexandria

St. Augustine of Hippo

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