unit 4

Question 1

Referred to Apostle Paul as his mother:

Answer 1

Anselm of Canterbury

Question 2

Spoke of Christ breast feeding the universe:

Answer 2

Ephrem

Question 3

Said Apostle Peter was “filled with abundant milk:

Answer 3

Guerric of Igny

Question 4

Small womb of Mary contained the One who dwells in God’s Womb:

Answer 4

Ephrem

Question 5

Called the Cross the bridal chamber and marriage bed:

Answer 5

Quodvultdeus

Question 6

Spoke of the birth pangs that seized the Twelve Apostles:

Answer 6

Ephrem

Question 7

Spoke of one’s death, as resting on a mother’s breast:

Answer 7

Mechtild of Hackeborn

Question 8

Wrote about the Spirit brooding over the Virgin Mary:

Answer 8

Hildegarde of Bingen

Question 9

Emphasized born of the Father without a mother, born of a mother without a father:

Answer 9

Augustine

Question 10

Wrote the Armenian Catechism and regularly used feminine imagery:

Answer 10

Gregory the Illuminator

Question 11

Referred to the Cross as our spiritual cradle:

Answer 11

Francis de Sales

Question 12

Said Jesus was laboring to give birth throughout all of his life:

Answer 12

Marguerite of Oignt

Question 13

Correlated Jesus’ tears in the Garden to those in birth pangs:

Answer 13

Anthony of Padua

Question 14

Marveled: “Your love is beyond all other loves”:

Answer 14

Marguerite of Oignt

Question 15

The Spirit cried out and tore her Temple garment in mourning :

Answer 15

Ephrem

Question 16

Wrote about the Unity-Trinity moved with maternal compassion :

Answer 16

Gregory of Narek

Question 17

Depicted the Feast of Corpus Christi in a feminine manner:

Answer 17

Bonaventure

Question 18

Promoted devotion to the Divine Mercy :

Answer 18

Faustina Kowalska

Question 19

Spoke of God tenderly kissing us as with a maternal heart :

Answer 19

Gertrude the Great

Question 20

First one to have a devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus :

Answer 20

Mechtild of Hackeborn

Question 21

Meditated on Jesus as firstborn of Mary and born God from God :

Answer 21

Bede

Question 22

Referred to Jesus’ two breasts as patience and clemency:

Answer 22

Bernard of Clairvaux