Ch. 11&12 (8&9)

Question 0

The visitation

Answer 0

Merry visit her cousin Elizabeth to tell her the news that she is pregnant with Jesus. Because she is elderly Elizabeth’s announcement of her own pregnancy is greeted as a miracle. Elizabeth gives birth to St. John the Baptist

Question 1

The Annunciation

Answer 1

The angel Gabriel announces to mary that she will be the virgin mother of Jesus

Question 2

Christmas or the nativity

Answer 2

The birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. Mary gives birth in a stable her husband Joseph is her soul companion. Soon after angels announce the birth to the shepherds

Question 3

adoration of the Magi

Answer 3

traditionally three kings who are also astrologers are attracted by a star that shines over Jesus is manger. They come to worship him and present gifts

Question 4

massacre of the innocents

Answer 4

after Jesus is born King Herod issues in order to execute all mail in the fence in the hope of killing him. His family takes them to safety in an episode called the flight into Egypt

Question 5

baptism of Jesus

Answer 5

John the Baptist Jesus’s cousin baptizes him in the Jordan River. Jesus’s ministry officially begins

Question 6

calling of the apostles

Answer 6

Jesus gathers his followers including St. Matthew and St. Peter as he proceeds in his ministry

Question 7

miracles

Answer 7

to prove his divinity Jesus performs a number of miracles like multiplying loves and fishes resurrecting the deceased to Lazarus and change and water into wine at the wedding at cana

Question 8

giving the keys

Answer 8

sensing his own death Jesus gives St. Peter the keys to the kingdom of heaven in effect installing him as his leader when he is gone and therefore the first pope

Question 9

Transfiguration

Answer 9

Jesus transfigures himself into God before the eyes of his Apostles; this is the high point of his ministry

Question 10

Palm Sunday

Answer 10

Jesus enters Jerusalem in triumph, greeted by throngs with palm branches

Question 11

Last Supper

Answer 11

Before Jesus is arrested, he has a final meal with his disciples in which he institutes the Eucharist - that is his body and blood in the form of bread and wine; at this meal, he reveals that he knows that one of his apostles Judas has betrayed him for 30 pieces of silver

Question 12

Crucifixion

Answer 12

After a brief series of trials, Jesus is sentenced to death for sedition. He is crowned with thorns, whipped with lashes, and forced to carry his cross through the streets of Jerusalem. At the top of a hill called Golgotha, he is nailed to the cross and left to die

Question 13

Deposition/Lamentation/Intombment

Answer 13

Jesus’s body is removed from the cross by his relatives, cleaned, mourned over, and buried

Question 14

Resurrection

Answer 14

on Easter Sunday three days later Jesus rises from the dead. on ascension day he goes to heaven

Question 15

Matthew

Answer 15

angel

Question 16

Mark

Answer 16

lion

Question 17

Luke

Answer 17

ox

Question 18

John

Answer 18

eagle

Question 19

Ambulatory

Answer 19

A passageway around the apse or alter of the church

Question 20

Apse

Answer 20

The endpoint of the church where the altar is located

Question 21

axial plan (basilican plan, longitudinal plan)

Answer 21

A church with a long nave whose focus is the apse so called because it is designed along and access

Question 22

atrium

Answer 22

A courtyard in a Roman house or before a Christian church

Question 23

basilica

Answer 23

in Christian architecture, an axially planned church with a long nave, side aisles, and an apse for the altar

Question 24

Pantocrator

Answer 24

literally ruler of the world I turn that alludes to a figure of Christ placed above the altar or in the center of the dome in a Byzantine church

Question 25

Iconostasis

Answer 25

A screen decorated with icons which separates the apse from the transept of the church

Question 26

pendentive

Answer 26

A construction shaped like a triangle that transitions the space between flat walls and the base of a round dome

Question 27

psalter

Answer 27

A book of the psalms or sacred sung poems from the Bible

Question 28

Squinch

Answer 28

The polygonal base of a dome that makes the transition from the round dome to a flat wall

Question 29

Triptych

Answer 29

A three paneled painting or sculpture