| A | B |
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| St. Anthony of Egypt | Lived as a hermit (a person who lives a solitary life committed to prayer and service to others) in a desert cave in Egypt. |
| St. Brigid of Ireland | She led Kildare was a double monastery |
| “Prayer and Work” | ore et labora |
| Rule of Benedict | Vows of chastity, poverty and obedience. |
| Islam | means submission |
| Feudalism | society was ordered around relationships derived from holding of land in exchange for service and protection |
| Sts. Cyril and Methodius | Greek missionaries and brothers who developed a Slavic alphabet called Cyrillic |
| simony | some bishops bought church offices for relatives |
| nepotism | giving a relative a job or title they are not qualified for |
| Lay Investiture | a high ranking person would “invest” bishops or abbots with their power and insist on loyalty to them over the Church. |
| Cluny | ounded by a duke and its charter specified that the monastery be independent of any secular ruler. |
| Filioque | “and the Son” |
| Eastern Schism | the Church split which happened in1054 |
| Pope Urban II | He recruited in France using a rousing sermon which detailed atrocities that Christians were enduring in Jerusalem. |
| Indulgences | the means by which the Church takes away the punishment that a person would receive in purgatory |
| Avignon Papacy | When the papacy moved to France for 70+ years |
| Catherine of Siena | She went to visit the Gregory XI in Avignon and urged his return to Rome. |
| The Black Death | The Church lost many clergy and were quickly replaced by people who were ill-prepared for the calling to priesthood. |
| Cistercians | tressed solitude along with manual labor and poverty. They became leaders in agricultural techniques, |
| Mendicants- | members of religious orders that rely on charity for support. |
| Gothic | tall spires, high thin walls, rib vaulted ceiling and flying buttresses. |
| Romanesque | massive pillars, rounded arches, thick walls and small windows. |
| Scholasticism | the method of thinking, teaching and writing devised in and characteristic of medieval universities; it is closely identified with knowledge about God. |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | was one of the greatest minds of the time and he became of the most influential scholars in the Church’s history. |
| Medieval Inquisition (aka Papal Inquisition) | Dominicans and Franciscans led the trials. Penances were usually canonical fasting, pilgrimages, attending mass or wearing distinctive clothing. |
| Spanish Inquisition | Led by the kings of Spain rather than the Church. Goal was to unite Spain through conformity to Catholicism. |
