| A | B |
|---|
| persecute | to cause a person to suffeer because of their beliefs |
| monastery | a community of monks |
| monks | a man who takes a vow to prayer and service in a monastery |
| clergy | a body of people who perform the sacred functions of a church |
| excommunicate | to formally deprive a person membership in a church |
| sacrament | solemn rite of Christian churches |
| baptism | entry into the church membership |
| confirmation | formal profession of belief in God |
| Eucahrist | consecration of bread in wine in Christian service |
| matrimony | marriage |
| Holy Orders | becoming a priest |
| Penance | confession of sins |
| extreme unctiion | blessing before death |
| pilgrimage | journey to a holy site |
| relic | holy object |
| convent | community of nuns |
| nun | woman who takes a vow of prayer and service in a convent |
| flying buttress | building technique to support a thin stone wall |
| gargoyle | stone carving to scare away devils |
| university | school of advanced learning |
| rhetoric | the study of persuasive speaking and writing |
| theology | the study of god and religioius truth |
| natural law | a universal law built into nature |
| Thomas Aquinas | combined the ideas of reason and faith |
| St Benedict | built the first manastery in the west |
| Francis of Assissi | lived the ideal Christian life |
| Canterbury Tales | book about the adventures of pilgrims to Canterbury |
| Gregory VII | excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV |
| cathedral | cross-shaped great church home throne of a bishop |
| nave | body of the cross of a cathedral |
| transcepts | arms of the cross in a cathedral |
| cloister | covered walk-way around the square on the inside of a monastery |
| mendicants | monks who beg for the poor |
