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Final Jeopardy
$100 Question
from Patron Saints
This revered follower of St. Francis of Assisi
is the Saint we pray to when
we lose something.
$100 Answer
from Patron Saints
St. Anthony of Padua
$200 Question
from Patron Saints
This shepherd, who is the brother of
James the Lesser and nephew to
Mary and Joseph, is the patron Saint of
desperate or hopeless causes.
He is also known for having a children’s
hospital named for him.
$200 Answer
Patron Saints
St. Jude
$300 Question
from Patron Saints
St. Germaine Cousin was born deformed and
inflicted with an ugly disease. She was abused
and made to sleep in the stable and given
tablescraps by her father and stepmother. She
received no schooling, but learned to pray the
Rosary and did so constantly. For this she was
made the patron Saint of what people?
$300 Answer
from Patron Saints
Unattractive People
$400 Question
from Patron Saints
There is nothing funny about the life of St. Vitus,
who was sentenced to death by lion for sorcery
when he exorcized the son of an anti-Christian
emperor. The last laugh was on the emperor,
though, for instead of attacking him the lion
licked the Saint’s feet. St. Vitus is now the
patron of this group of people.
$400 Answer
from Patron Saints
Comics or Comical People
$500 Question
from Patron Saints
St. Clare of Assisi, a follower of St. Francis of
Assisi and founder of her own order, The Poor
Clares, was too ill to attend Mass one Christmas
Eve, but was still able to see the Mass being
celebrated in the church while she remained in
her cell. For this reason, she was made the
Patron Saint of what?
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from Patron Saints
Television
$100 Question
from Making Saints
We are all saints with a little ‘s’ – anyone
who is a faithful follower of Christ
is a saint. However, some people become
Saints through this special process.
$100 Answer
from Making Saints
Canonization
$200 Question
from Making Saints
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints
examines an individual’s life, and it
recommends that the pope make a proclamation
of the person’s heroic virtue. This person is then
called by this title, and people may begin
praying for their intercession.
$200 Answer
from Making Saints
Venerable
$300 Question
from Making Saints
To have someone recognized as a Blessed, and
therefore Beatified, you must have one of these,
acquired through the individual's intercession. If
the Venerable is a martyr, then he or she may be
Beatified, or declared Blessed, by the pope
without one.
$300 Answer
from Making Miracles
A miracle.
$400 Question
from Making Saints
Two miracles must be attributed to the
Blessed’s intercession before you can be
declared a Saint. But there’s a catch to the
second one, which has to be done under this
special condition.
$400 Answer
from Making Saints
Posthumous.
$500 Question
from Making Saints
This Pope has presided over the
canonization of 476 Saints,
many of whom are non-European.
$500 Answer
from Making Saints
Pope John Paul II
$100 Question
from Martyrs
Sharing the name of a Christmas carol, this
“good king” was actually a Duke and virtuous
Christian who was later murdered by his own
brother for religious differences.
$100 Answer
from Martyrs
St. Wenceslaus
$200 Question
from Martyrs
Not at all crabby, this Saint had nothing to do
with the sea, and actually served as a roman
imperial bodyguard which left little time for
hobbies like composing. When it was discovered
that he was a Christian, he was put
to death by a firing squad of archers.
$200 Answer
from Martyrs
St. Sebastian
$300 Question
from Martyrs
The Saint formerly known as Saul, he is most
often associated with St. Peter and it is
commonly believed that he was beheaded in
Rome after a long imprisonment.
$300 Answer
from Martyrs
St. Paul
$400 Question
from Martyrs
This Saint, a former fisherman, won’t deny that
had three or four flaws of his own. Except when
it came to his death; believing himself unworthy
of being put to death in the same manner as his
master, he was crucified upside down.
$400 Answer
from Martyrs
St. Peter
$500 Question
from Martyrs
Sacré bleu! This famous soldier and popular
Saint preferred for others to call her Jehanne la
Pucelle and was canonized by the same church
that had executed her for heresy.
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from Martyrs
Jehanne d'Arc
Joan of Arc
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from Miracles
Padre Pio, a Capuchin Friar and Mystic,
is a Saint who suffered the wounds of Christ,
otherwise known as this.
$100 Answer
from Miracles
Stigmata
$200 Question
from Miracles
A talent most people would love to have,
this miracle has allowed Saints to be seen
in two places at once.
$200 Answer
from Miracles
Bilocation
$300 Question
from Miracles
St. Bernadette had eighteen visions of Mary.
During one Bernadette was instructed to dig a
hole and water sprang up from it. Healing
properties and miracles were associated with the
water, and millions of people still visit this
French town to experience its effects. This
sacred place also shares a name with pop star
Madonna’s daughter.
$300 Answer
from Miracles
Lourdes, France
(Our Lady of Lourdes)
$400 Question
from Miracles
As St. Dorothy was preparing to be martyred,
she was mocked by a man who told her to send
him fruit and flowers from the “garden of her
spouse,” she was going to. Upon her death, an
angel disguised as a child appeared to the man
with a basket of three apples and three of these
flowers, most often associated with miracles and
Mary.
$400 Answer
from Miracles
Roses
$500 Question
from Miracles
This type of preserved body remains free from
decomposition regardless of manner of burial,
temperature, or moisture content. They have
been found starting after the death of Christ, and
to this day the causes of preservation of these
corpses still cannot be resolved by science.
$500 Answer
from Miracles
Incorruptible
$100 Question
from “Pope”-pourri
Out of all 265 Popes that the Church has had,
only this patriotic number have been canonized
as a Saint.
$100 Answer
from “Pope”-pourri
76
$200 Question
from “Pope”-pourri
“X” marks the spot for this Pope Pius who was
the most recent Pope to be canonized. This Saint
served a little more than a decade, but made
quite an impression with his papacy.
$200 Answer
from “Pope”-pourri
Pope Pius X
$300 Question
from “Pope”-pourri
Saint Pius V is better known as the Pope who
excommunicated this famous English Queen.
Despite her notorious father’s actions, she had
until then left Catholics alone, but after his
actions she took to actively persecuting them.
$300 Answer
from “Pope”-pourri
Elizabeth I
$400 Question
from “Pope”-pourri
One of only two Popes in the history of the
Papacy to ever do so, Saint Celestine V was
called a coward for it.
$400 Answer
from “Pope”-pourri
Abdicate the Papacy
$500 Question
from “Pope”-pourri
This Pope John (there have been a couple) was
the first Pope to change his name. His given
name was Mercury, a Roman God. He only
served two years, but his life was holy enough
for him to be canonized a Saint.
$500 Answer
from “Pope”-pourri
Pope John II
Final Jeoparody
This Salesian priest, while not yet a Saint,
is the founder of the Order of the Oblates of
St. Francis de Sales.
Final Jeoparody Answer
The Blessed
Fr. Louis Brisson