Friends,
As we are very close to November, the month that the feast of All Saints falls in, I’m making this quiz about various blesseds and saints whose feast days fall within that month.
-H.C. Harold
PRINTABLE QUIZ
1) St. Albert the Great
This saint and doctor of the church (feast day: Nov. 15) is considered the patron saint of scientists because of his well-known intellect, and prolific writing and research. He was also the teacher and later defender of what Catholic theologian?
- a) Thomas Aquinas
- b) Aristotle
- c) Catherine of Siena
- d) Thomas More
2) St. Margaret of Scotland
The saint, whose feast day falls on Nov. 16, was known for her altruistic spirit. She married the Scottish king but was born in England and spent much of her early life in what country?
- a) France
- b) Hungary
- c) Ireland
- d) Germany
3) Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro
This beatified Jesuit priest preached in Mexico during the early 1900s when the Catholic Church was persecuted in that country. His feast day falls on Nov. 23, the day he died by what means?
- a) Executed by the Mexican government on false charges
- b) Died of the Spanish Flu of 1918
- c) Of natural causes
- d) Shot while saying Mass
4) Blessed Martha Le Bouteiller
This 19th-century beatified nun from France (feast day: Nov. 4) was so well known for making a certain item that it garnered her a special nickname.
- a) Cheese
- b) Lace
- c) Crosses
- d) Cider
5) St. Leonard of Port Maurice
The Italian Franciscan (feast day: Nov. 26) was known to be a great preacher and for increasing people’s devotions to the Blessed Sacrament, Sacred Heart, Immaculate Conception, and this other devotion which he was able to help set up in hundreds of places.
- a) Rosary
- b) Stations of the Cross
- c) Miraculous Medal
- d) Divine Mercy
6) St. Gertrude the Great
The German Benedictine nun and 13th-century mystic (feast day: Nov. 16) is the patroness of what area of the world?
- a) The West Indies
- b) Germany
- c) Canada
- d) Bohemia
7) St. Agnes of Assisi
This saint celebrates her feast day on Nov. 19. Born Caterina Offreducia, Agnes was the younger sister of which saint?
- a) St. Francis of Assisi
- b) St. Clare of Assisi
- c) St. Vitalus
- d) St. Gabriel
Answers: 1) a, 2) b, 3) a, 4) d, 5) b, 6) a, 7) b