1. Kind of tidings

5. Island where San Giulio's arrival drove away the serpents and monsters

9. "___ son gives his father joy, but a foolish son is a grief to his mother." (Prov 10:1)

14. Vatican City city

15. "We Have ___ Told" (Haas hymn)

16. "...y resucito al tercer dia, ___ las Escrituras..." (Credo Niceno)

17. Cardinal O'Connor's successor

18. "He's making a ___, checking it twice..."

19. For the Church, they run from the first Sunday of Advent to Christ the King

20. The Arian king Theodoric sent Pope St. John I there to negotiate relief for the Arians under 51 across

23. Letters after an Augustinian's name

24. “So has the Lord done for me ___ time..." (Luke 1:25)

25. "Lieb' ___ deinem gottlichen Mund" (Stille Nacht)

26. ___, missa est.

27. Fr. Joseph ___, who wrote the lyrics to "Stille Nacht"

29. Srs. of St. Dorothy, initially

32. ___ of Milan

35. Descendant of the Rephaim (2 Sam 21:16)

36. Golden rule beginning

37. Two titles for Pope St. John I

40. Abraham's concubine (DR)

41. "For ___ am a person subject to authority..." (Luke 7:8)

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

43. Abraham's nephew

44. First Hebrew letter

45. Greek letters

46. First name in Notre Dame football

47. ___ de los Muertos, Mexican celebration honoring the dead

48. "Fin ___ Principio" (1902 Leo XIII encyclical)

51. He made a decree in 523 against the Arians, and received Pope John I honorably

56. "Its tail ___ away a third of the stars in the sky..." (Rev 12:4)

57. San ___ Obispo, Calif.

58. Shusaku ___, Japanese Catholic author of "Silence"

59. Vetus ___, old Latin Bible translations

60. "___ Sacri" (1950 Pius XII encyclical)

61. "Behold, the ___ of God!"

62. Feeds the kitty?

63. ___ Sancte Spiritus, the "Golden Sequence"

64. John ___, theologian, storyteller, poet, and author of "The Spirit Master"

1. El ___, Catholic artist (1541-1614)

2. The Word (Gk)

3. "Descend from the peak of ___..." (Song of Songs 4:8)

4. "Foxes have ___ and birds of the sky have nests..." (Mat 8:20)

5. Kind of person dedicated to God

6. Santa Maria, ___ del Cielo

7. "And do not subject us to the final ___..." (Mat 6:13

8. Against, in the beginning?

9. "Friend, who appointed me ___ judge and arbitrator?" (Luke 12:14)

10. "She ___ incessantly in the night, her cheeks damp with tears." (Lam 1:2)

11. Son of Nathan (2 Sam 23:36)

12. "...this is exactly what you dreamed, and its meaning is ___.” (Dan 2:45)

13. Printers' widths

21. Saintly bishop (f.2-15)

22. Book between Micah and Habakkuk

26. Book after 2 Kgs

27. "But you, ___ God, avoid all this." (1 Tm 6:11)

28. ___ Colonna, a.k.a. Pope Martin V (1417-1431)

29. Dominic ___, renowned Spanish theologian (d.1560)

30. River of Hades

31. Tolkien dwarf (LOTR)

32. Mount of "the curse" (Deut 11:29)

33. "___ Si, Senor!" (Donna Pena hymn)

34. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven ___ hand!” (Mat 3:2)

35. Historian's concern

36. Parish catechetical administrators (abbr.)

38. Nuestro Senora del ___, patron of Spain

39. Like Peter, to Simon

44. Syrian king (2 Cor 11:32)

45. Pope from 1458-1464

46. "Keep me as the ___ of your eye..." (Ps 17:8)

47. Invisible spirit mentioned in the Koran

48. Daughter of Jacob and Leah

49. "Between you ___ I will establish my covenant..." (Gen 17:2)

50. Saintly Benedictine nun who helped St. Boniface, her relative, evangelize the Germans

51. Mother Angelica's station (abbr.)

52. Ash Wednesday no-no

53. Saintly king of Norway (d.1030, f.7-29)

54. Ancient alphabetic character

55. Archeological mounds

56. His descendants were post exilic temple servants (Neh 7:47)