21 x 21 Crossword: “Crosses to Bare”

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  • 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)

  • Down
  • 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.

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