1. Jesus ben ___, Old Testament author

5. Picpus Fathers, initially

9. Tuck, e.g.

14. ___ was in the beginning...

15. Egyptian sun god

16. "___ Pontificatus" (1939 Pius XII encyclical)

17. St. Dominic Savio is their patron

19.  With 35 down, weather phenomenon named (by sailors) for a saint

20. Catholic frontiersman Carson (d.1868)

21. "When it is full they ___ it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets." (Mat 13:48)

22. "...on the seventh day he rested at his ___." (Ex 31:17)

23. Good news

25. St. ___ of Slane, Irish druid convert of St. Patrick (d.513, f.11-2)

26. St. Peter of Mt. ___, hermit (d.734, f.6-12)

29. "He then directed that she should be given something to ___." (Luke 8:55)

31. "___ Fois Encore" (1907 Pius X encyclical)

34. "___ On, O King Eternal"

35. "The rain fell, the ___ came, and the winds blew..." (Mat 7:25)

38. Year in the reign of St. Peter

39. Peak with St. Bernard of Montjoux as its patron

40. Pope who canonized Dominic Savio in 1954

41. Pallium pins (Lat.)

42. Bible atlas entry

43. Make a father?

44. Therese and Jean, e.g.

45. Beginning to the Act of Contrition

46. "Gott ___ Dank" (hymn tune)

47. "You are free ___ from any of the trees of the garden..." (Gen 2:16)

48. Our Lady of Guadalupe mo.

50. "You cannot serve God and ___." (Luke 16:13)

54. River of Rohan (LOTR)

56. William Wakefield ___, American Cardinal-Priest (d.2015)

57. "You did not anoint my head with ___, but she..." (Luke 7:46)

60. Tolkien dragon

62. Saintly mentor and biographer of St. Dominic Savio

64. “Lord, ___ go first and bury my father.” (Mat 8:21)

65. Prophet to King Asa (2 Chr 15:8)

66. "He ___ himself, then goes off and promptly forgets..." (Jas 1:24)

67. Ezrahite psalmist (Ps 89:1)

68. Adopted son of Claudius

69. Archeological mounds

1. "...no food, no ___, no money in their belts." (Mark 6:8)

2. Son of Appiam (1 Chr 2:31)

3. Paul caused one in Ephesus (Acts 19)

4. "To Thee," in Spanish prayer

5. St. ___, monk of Palestine (d.532, f.12-5)

6. Holy water holder near the door of a Church

7. Robert J. ___, Bishop of Rockville Centre, NY

8. Catholic News Service, initially

9. Brothers of the Holy Eucharist, initially

10. "Who has appointed you ___ and judge over us?" (Ex 2:14)

11. At the Oratory, St. Dominic Savio started a group called the "Sodality of Mary ___"

12. Prophet from Tekoa

13. Resurrect

18. Greek letters

23. Elohim

24. Pope who died in the year of the Great Schism

25. "___ Nos" (1882 Leo XIII encyclical)

26. Mission to remember

27. "Abner sent messengers to David in ___..." (2 Sam 3:12)

28. "The Exercise of a ___," a practice at the Oratory during which St. Dominic Savio predicted that he would die

30. One of the leaders of the people in Neh 10:17

32. Church coucil site of 325

33. "...who gives life to the dead and calls into being what does not ___." (Rom 4:17)

35. See 19 across

36. Descendants of Mizraim (Gen 10:13)

37. Augustinians, initially

40. Little Workers of the Sacred Heart, initially

44. "This is my beloved ___ with whom I am well pleased."

47. Sepulcher

49. ___ Elish, Babylonian myth

51. Domicile

52. Canadian Catholic musician Matt ___

53. "...que quitas el peccado del ___..." (Cordero de Dios)

54. Patmos, e.g.

55. Jesuit Pierre-Jean de ___, nicknamed "Friend of Sitting Bull"

57. Hosea, in the DR

58. Breviary translators (abbr.)

59. "...that one will suffer ___; the person will be saved..." (1 Cor 3:15)

61. First book of the Bible (abbr.)

62. Convert to Catholicism Fosse, Norwegian winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature

63. Initials found on CDs of musicals