May 8: “Wiro”
1. Stir
4. Purim's month
8. Goodbye "to God"?
13. Paul of ___, bishop who was deposed for teaching monarchianism in the 3rd C.
15. Sister of Mary and Lazarus
17. Patron saint of the Netherlands, and companion of St. Wiro
18. Letters from Greece
19. "Ut Unum ___" (1995 John Paul II encyclical)
20. Mozart's "Great" one was in C Minor
22. Saintly daughter of William the Conquerer (d.1137, f.2-24)
23. "No ___ dejes caer en la tentacion" (Padre Nuestro)
24. Credo of the People of God, initially
26. "Kidnapped" author's inits.
27. ___ on the Mount
31. Deceased Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston, John Patrick ___ (d.2014)
33. Where Merton summered while at Columbia U.
34. Golden rule beginning
35. St. ___, bishop of Hexham (d.686, f.10-26)
39. St. Wiro's ordained position
42. City near Padua
43. Burden
44. Camaldolese Hermits, initially
45. "M*A*S*H" role
47. Secret society members
48. Bag-checking org.
51. Ite, missa ___.
52. Liturgy of the Hours abbr.
53. Hagiographer ___ Butler
55. "People Look ___" (Advent hymn)
57. Francis Raymond ___, Bishop of Evansville, Indiana, 1969-1989
61. Coddled
63. Place in the Netherlands where St. Wiro founded St. Peter's, and is himself buried
65. St. Catherine, notably
66. Liturgical verse
67. St. Gregory of ___, St. Basil's brother
68. Missionary Srs. of the Holy Spirit, initially
69. Augustinians, initially
1. Desert serpents
2. The Sacrament of the Last Supper painter
3. Portent
4. ___ Wednesday
5. Evil spirit (Var.)
6. A Titan condemned to hold up the sky
7. God had Job's friends sacrifice seven as a burnt offering for themselves (Job 42:8)
8. Start of a Latin conjugation
9. "...the four angels who were given power to ___ the land and the sea..." (Rev 7:2)
10. Made angry
11. Saintly co-worker of St. Wiro
12. Commandment word
14. Month of the feasts of Therese, Francis, and John Paul II (abbr.)
16. Gray and Hutchinson, for two
21. Bl. John Duns ___, OFM, philosopher and theologian (d.1308, f.11-8)
23. Offense
25. "When the ___ became known to Mordecai, he told Queen Esther..." (Esth 2:22)
27. ___ it (Amen)
28. New Haven collegians
29. What Jesus will give to all who come to him (Mat 11:28)
30. Canadian Catholic musician Matt ___
31. Tolkien dwarf (LOTR)
32. "Visionary" prophets
34. Tithe, e.g.
36. City in Asher taken under Joshua (Jos 19:30)
37. "...and he loved her more ___ Leah." (Gen 29:30)
38. PIN takers
40. "And he longed to eat his fill of the ___ on which the swine fed, but nobody gave him any." (Luke 15:16)
41. "...the ___ guard followed the ark..." (Jos 6:9)
46. Peter healed him at Lydda (Acts 9:32)
47. Medieval Latin religious choral compositions
48. Bible study aids
49. "With the jawbone of an ass I have ___ a thousand men." (Judges15:16)
50. St. Peter's was founded by St. Wiro on land given him by Pippin II in the Netherlands
52. "___ and Daughters" (Easter Hymn)
54. Hebrew letters
56. Ancient Syria
57. Srs. of Mary of the Presentation, initially
58. Hostess version of a Little Debbie's Swiss Roll
59. Son of Seth (Luke 3:38)
60. Descendant of Pahath-moab (Ezra 10:30)
62. Genetic stuff
64. Brief prayer for the dead?