Grade 8 Chapter 10

What tradition began with St. Francis of Assisi?

• Christmas tree

• The rosary

• The Nativity/Manger scense

• The stations of the cross

Battles to take back the cross, freeing the Holy Land and its sacred sites

• Battle of Barbarians

• Civil War

• Crusades

• Inquisition

Refers to the cultural and political atmosphere where Catholicism influenced every aspect of people's lives

• Christianity

• Christendom

• Middle Ages

• High Middle Ages

A severe penalty imposed by the Church for serious sins against the Catholic

• simony

• excommunication

• cruciform

• mendicant

The buying and selling of spiritual things, spiritual services, or Church offices

• lay investiture

• excommunication

• simony

• apse

Professional military men of high rank

• knights

• overlords

• serfs

• barbarians

Allowed more light into the building and illustrated stories from the Bible and the saints

• Romanesque architecture

• statues

• transept

• stained glass windows

The name of the council that took place in 1215 where every aspect of Catholic life was discussed and regulated by decree

• 5th Lateran Council

• 4th Lateran Council

• Council of Constantinople

• Council of Nicaea

Greatest theologian or scholar studying theology during medieval times

• Francis of Assisi

• Clare of Assisi

• Thomas Aquinas

• Dominican

The widespread practice by laypeople of appointing priests, bishops, and even the pope

• lay investiture

• simony

• excommunication

• transept