21 x 21 Crossword: “Crosses to Bare”
1. Saintly Diocletian martyr (d.304, f.8-7)
5. Some are inflated
10. Grandfather of Eupolemus (1 Mac 8:17)
15. Country of Teresa and Dominic
16. The Peace of ___ (1629 Treaty giving Huguenots religious and civil liberties)
17. Ram's horn instrument
19. Artemis's twin
20. With 7 down, unquestioning acceptance of religious teaching
21. With 13 down, the central subject of Jesus' teaching and actions
23. With 1 down, term used for one of the Twelve or for St. Paul
24. Morsels
25. Unification Church follower, informally
26. Winged
27. St. Colman of Lann ___, abbot (d.612, f.9-26)
29. Last ride?
33. Farmer's place, in song
34. "All who see me mock me; they ___ their lips and jeer..." (Ps 22:8)
35. HRE continent
37. "Tönt es ___ von fern und nah" (Stille Nacht)
38. Bishop's jurisdiction
39. Mercy (Heb.)
41. If sued for this, give them your cloak, too.
43. What Jacob bartered for Esau's birthright
45. Stamp of approval?
46. Catholic inst. founded by Tom S. Monaghan
48. Son of Appaim (1 Chr 2:31)
50. King of Tyre (2 Sam 5:11)
52. Salesians, initially
55. Chair of St. Peter in Rome?
57. Mustard family member
59. The Most Reverend Joseph Charles ___, Bishop of Scranton
63. "Whoever has ___ ought to hear what the Spirit says to the churches." (Rev 2:7)
65. Possible tribunal declaration
67. Something the first shall be?
69. Forgiveness
70. With 54 down, something early Christians did at agape meals and eucharistic celebrations
72. With 42 down, bishops' gathering called in 451 to deal with the nature of the hypostatic union
75. With 60 down, familiar way to refer to Benedicta of the Cross
76. One of those the Jews of Susa killed (Esth 9:8)
78. "Dies ___"
79. Son of Nathan (2 Sam 23:36)
81. Many bishops' degrees (abbr.)
82. "Iconic" term for the Mother of Jesus
84. Joshes
86. Pharaoh Akhenaten's sole deity
88. It's cut and dried
89. Saintly mother of St. Gregory Nazianzen
91. Something drawn or cast
93. Chinese "way"
94. Treebeard and Quickbeam, notably (LOTR)
97. Author of Proverbs 30
99. Destitute
101. 2006 pro-life film by Alejandro Monteverde
106. “They have had too much ___ wine.” (Acts 2:13)
107. Formerly, formerly
109. Bl. Miguel ___, SJ, martyr (d.1927, f.11-23)
110. First "great" pope
111. First Hebrew letter
113. Like Sts. Olga and Maximilian Kolbe, ethnically
115. "...sed tantum dic verbo et sanabitur anima ___." (Non sum dignus)
117. Wadi in 1 Samuel (30:9-21)
118. "Give light to my eyes lest ___ in death..." (Ps 13:4)
120. Logical beginning?
122. With 102 down, response in the Greek penitential rite
124. With 112 down, celebration whose date depends on the dating of Easter each year
126. With 114 down, liturgical music of a Gregorian style
127. "They devour the ___ of widows..." (Mk 12:40)
128. "The Story of the Amulet" writer Edith
129. Saintly Bishop of Meissen, Germany, patron of fishermen (d.1106, f.6-16)
130. Oldest son of David
131. Vatican City ___, the smallest country in the world
132. Town in southern Netherlands
133. He and his brothers Claudius and Asterius were martyred in Cilicia under Diocletian (d.304, f.8-23)
1. See 23 across
2. Kind of prophet or witness
3. Anger, with "up"
4. Battery part
5. Mary Magdalene's "nickname" for Jesus (Jn 20:16)
6. "Desde ___ ha de venir a juzgar..." (Credo de los Apostoles)
7. See 20 across
8. Christmas decoration
9. Srs. of St. Dorothy, initially
10. "___, and you shall receive."
11. Ring
12. Product of a Spanish pine
13. See 21 across
14. Gloom
15. "...their ___ into pruning hooks..." (Is 2:4)
18. Stirred up
19. The Most Reverend Emilio ___, SDB, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston (d.2020)
22. Ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:31)
23. "St. Matthew Passion" composer
28. Saint of Sens a.k.a. Lupus (d.623, f.9-1)
30. Some batteries
31. Great-grandmother of King David
32. The Most Reverend Terry ___, SVD, ret'd. Bishop of Memphis
36. Classic board game
40. "___ Kapital"
41. Vietnamese emperor who persecuted Christians beginning in 1848
42. See 72 across
44. Present action?
45. Eclipse shadows
47. "Rise Up, O ___ of God"
49. One of David's "Thirty" warriors (1 Chr 11:29)
51. The Latin "you love”?
52. Transjordan area given to Reuben and Gad (Num 32:3)
53. Son of Zerah (1 Chr 2:6) and musician (1 Kgs 5:11)
54. See 70 across
56. Word/phrase repeated by Jesus on the cross
58. Ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:25)
60. See 75 across
61. "Why I Am Still a Catholic" author Chervin
62. Anxious
64. Beauty parlors
66. "They ___ in ambush like lions in a thicket..." (Ps 10:9)
68. Robe for Caesar
71. Founding missionary and pioneer of the Pimeria Alta, Eusebio ___ (US Nat'l Park Service)
73. Implement of crucifixion
74. "...Abel, for his part, brought the ___ portion of the firstlings of his flock." (Gen 4:4)
77. St. ___ Schaeffer, disabled laywoman (d.1925, f.10-5)
80. Saintly Roman noblewoman and friend of Jerome (d.384, f.3-22)
83. God's messenger
85. "You did not ___ into the breach..." (Ezek 13:5)
87. Where Doeg betrayed David (1 Sam 22)
90. Halo, e.g.
92. Phrase before "the Mount"
94. Where Tamar seduced Judah (Gen 38:14)
95. Bl. John ___, Jesuit and Douai martyr (d.1578, f.2-3)
96. Tribes and apostles, e.g.
98. Bible edition: Abbr.
100. Sandra Cano, in abortion law
102. See 122 across
103. Ease
104. Despoils
105. Million or billion suffix
108. Father or Abbot, e.g.
112. See 124 across
113. Schism
114. See 126 across
116. Son of Carmi, who violated the ban (Jos 7:1)
117. Saint who founded the Carthusians (d.1101, f.10-6)
119. St. ___ the Younger, abbess and martyr (d.870, f.4-2)
121. ___ Kleine Nacht Musik
123. "...first let me say farewell to my family at ___.” (Luke 9:61)
125. Summer in France
126. Alley org.