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- Which symbol was adopted by early Christians as their secret symbol?
- Which Christian festival held on 2 February commemorates the purification of the Virgin Mary?
- Which Clerical Directory is the authoritative directory of Anglican clergy and churches in the UK and Ireland?
- What name is given to the period of forty days before Easter?
- What name is used for the Christian festival of Pentecost?
- Who was born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone in 1181?
- Which small French town rose to prominence in 1858 due to the Marian apparitions claimed to have been seen by a peasant girl named Bernadette?
- By what name are the Mormons also well known?
- Name the fourth largest Christian Church in the UK, after the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches, and the Church of Scotland?
- Which pope was the first to visit Britain?
- What is the practise of tonsure?
- Who was the founder of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland?
- What is the proper name for the Quakers?
- The Society of Jesus is a religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540 - what are its members called?
- The Ninety-five Theses was written by which professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg?
- The Coptic Orthodox Church is the largest Christian body in which country?
- What was founded by Mary Baker Eddy?
- Which evangelical Christian association has the primary activity of distributing free copies of the Bible?
- Which Roman Emperor made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire?
- Who is considered to be the first-recorded British Christian martyr?
- What is the name of the length of linen cloth bearing the negative image of a man which some claim to be the image of Jesus of Nazareth?
- Why did Elizabeth Seton become famous in 1975?
- Which Catholic religious order are officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance?
- What name is given to the governing body of the Church of England which replaced the Church Assembly in 1970?
- Which three objects refer to a Latin Christian method of excommunication?
Answers:
- The fish
- Candlemas
- Crockford's
- Lent
- Whitsun
- Francis of Assisi
- Lourdes
- Latter Day Saints
- The Methodist Church
- John Paul II (1982)
- Shaving some or all of the hair on the scalp
- John Knox
- The Society of Friends
- Jesuits
- Martin Luther (in 1517)
- Egypt
- Christian Science
- Gideons or (The Gideons International)
- Constantine
- Saint Alban
- Turin Shroud
- She becomes first American-born saint
- Trappists
- General Synod
- Bell, book, and candle