Popes and Kings – Quiz

1. If one were to make a _____________ to a holy site and pray in front of the relics there, one could receive a(n) ______________ from the Church.
2. In the late second century B.C., Rome’s domestic political culture began a century of turbulence with the careers and assassinations of the ________ brothers.
3. List the seven sacraments of the medieval Church.
4. St. Bernard of Clairvaux is the most famous member of the ___________ Order.
5. The most powerful pope of the Middle Ages is generally considered to be ____________.
6. The practice of a temporal lord conferring the signs of office on a member of the clergy is called ____________.
7. _____________ came to be the most venerated of all the saints in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
8. ____________ and ____________ each founded religious orders with the pope’s blessing in the early thirteenth century.
9. __________ is the sale of Church positions for money.

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1. Pilgrimage, indulgence
2. Gracchi
3. Baptism, confirmation, Eucharist, penance, matrimony, ordination, extreme unction
4. Cistercian
5. Innocent III
6. Lay investiture
7. The Virgin Mary
8. St. Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic
9. Simony