21 x 21 Crossword: “Holy Land Map”
1. Phoenician trading center
5. "___ Multa Sint" (1882 Leo XIII encyclical)
8. Mountain in northern Israel
14. Modern Aram
19. Shema
20. "Set me ___ seal upon your heart..." (SoS 8:6)
21. Father of Rezon (2 Kgs 11:23)
22. Has sinful desires
23. "And your Father who sees ___ will repay you." (Mat 6:4)
25. Pax ___
26. Hebrew maiden
27. Book after Jer
28. Religious image: Var.
30. Bl. Jean-Martin ___, French priest and missionary to China (d.1793, f.5-4)
32. "...and there shall be ___ death or mourning..." (Rev 21:4)
35. Went in front
36. Saintly pope from 682-683
39. Peak with St. Bernard of Montjoux as its patron
42. "...surely a demon cannot ___ the eyes of the blind, can he?” (John 10:21)
43. Put on
45. Droops
46. Son of Ezbai (1 Chr 11:37)
49. Marsh plant
51. Home base of Jesus' Galilean ministry
54. "If I fail to bring him back and set him before you, I will bear the ___ before you forever." (Gen 43:9)
55. Nation leader?
56. Stadium cheer
58. Author Matthew, Dennis or Sheila, namely
59. "Have you come out as against ___, with swords and clubs?" (Luke 22:52)
61. Unclean animal (Lev 11:29)
62. Son of Elkanah (1 Chr 6:10)
65. Killed, biblically
66. How Cat Stevens recorded "Morning Has Broken"?
67. Self-derived being, as in God
69. Book after 2 Kgs
71. "...the peoples shake their heads ___." (Ps 44:15)
72. Love less
73. Seventeenth Greek letter
74. The City of David
76. Doom of destruction
77. Roman "war lord"
79. Scene of Jesus' first miracle
80. Bl. Maria Fortunata ___, OSB, mystic and "Apostle of Eucharistic Adoration" (d.1922, f.11-20)
81. Saintly Croatian Capuchin friar Mandic (d.1942, f.5-12)
84. Christian ___
85. St. ___ of Hexham, missionary and patron of learning (d.742, f.10-20)
86. Israel natives
88. ...por ___ ruego a Santa Maria, siempre Virgen..." (Yo confieso)
89. Cardinal Daniel ___ of Galveston-Houston
91. Breviary translators (abbr.)
94. Book after Prov
95. HBO rival
96. Old iron sword
97. Birthplace of David and Jesus
101. Where Merton summered while at Columbia U.
103. "The wind ___ and there was great calm." (Mak 4:39)
105. Timothy's grandmother (2 Tim 1:5)
106. Smyrna locale
108. "Aunt" with a "Cope Book"
109. "...there was no room for them in the ___." (Luke 2:7)
110. Hebrew letters
112. "Our Father, who ___ in heaven..."
113. "...nor can a ___ tree bear good fruit. (Mat 7:18)
115. Ecce ___! (Pilate)
117. End of Saint Bernad or Col?
118. "Exodus" hero
119. Spouse of Sarai
122. Aisle escorts
126. City of Tobiah's in-laws in Media
131. Father of Hosea
132. St. Lawrence ___, bishop (d.1180, f.11-14)
133. "Oh Senora ___" (Spanish prayer)
134. "Song of the South" title
135. Pharaoh's land
136. Body of water crossed in the Exodus
137. Society of Christ, initially
138. Esau's land
1. St. Peter ___, Vietnamese martyr (d.1839, f.12-20)
2. It's made in Japan
3. ___ Tafari (Haile Selassie)
4. By and by
5. Mount where Elijah called down fire
6. "...what parable can we ___ for it?" (Mark 4:30)
7. Saintly noblewoman of Ringelheim (d.968, f.3-14)
8. "Great" king of Judea
9. Son of Zebulun (Gen 46:14)
10. Edge
11. Kid's cry?
12. Company of Mary, initially
13. Ruth's mother-in-law
14. Smite
15. Christmas season
16. Sisters of Mercy, initially
17. "...but you are making ___ den of thieves." (Mat 21:13)
18. Lenten headwear?
24. Mercury, for one
29. "___ in Mind", Deiss classic
31. Tolkien dwarf (LOTR)
32. "___ Aetate" (Vatican II doc.)
33. Dialogues of the Carmelites and Suor Angelica, e.g.
34. Sea to the west of the Holy Land
36. St. Colman of ___ Elo, Bishop of Connor (d.611, f.9-26)
37. Cardinal O'Connor's successor
38. Ursulines, initially
39. Arid region to the east of the Holy Land
40. Kind of psalm
41. "...and you yourself a sword will ___..." (Luke 2:35)
44. 4th C. African saint (f.11-1)
45. Ed ___, Augustine Inst. apologist
47. What the rider of the white horse held (Rev 6:2)
48. Vatican vestment
50. Poet's muse
52. Job antagonist (Job 32-36)
53. Bad thing in Rome?
57. Catholic Supreme Court Justice, ___ Coney Barrett
60. In medias ___
63. St. Catherine of ___, doctor
64. Jerusalem fortress site built by Antiochus Epiphanes
65. The Most Reverend Terry ___, SVD, ret'd. Bishop of Memphis
68. Initials for Jesus
70. Bible edition: Abbr.
71. "___ Via" ("The High Road," and name of a Catholic college student community)
72. Book before Zec
74. Son of Isaac
75. Processional path in a church
76. St. John ___, Salesians founder (d.1888, f.1-31)
77. Italian family from which came four popes
78. “A great prophet has ___ in our midst” (Lk 7:16)
79. Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, initially
81. Rue du ___, apparition site in Paris
82. "There is ___ heavy with guilt..." (Sir 4:21)
83. John G. ___, Bishop of Orlando
85. "Artaxerxes" composer
87. St. ___ of Rheims, Bishop (d.533, f.1-13)
90. St. John Vianney's town
91. "...but that I should raise ___ the last day." (John 6:39)
92. X's
93. 1997 U.S. Open champ
98. Hebrew name meaning "My God"
99. Dolores ___, OSB, actress who became a nun
100. Holds in high regard
102. “You may go; as you have believed, ___ done for you.” (Mat 8:13)
104. "The start of strife is like the opening of a ___..." (Prov 17:14)
107. The Dead Sea, or its region
111. “I will never forsake ___ abandon you.” (Heb 13:5)
112. "For the king had a fleet of Tarshish ships ___ with Hiram’s fleet." (1 Kgs 10:22)
114. Prayer in a Benedictine motto
115. David's instrument
116. "Do not ___ anything you proposed.” (Esth 6:10)
117. ___ Stanley Gardner
119. "Honest ___"
120. Play the mendicant?
121. "...te damos gracias, Senor Dios, ___ celestial..." (Gloria a Dios)
123. Jean d'Arc, e.g.
124. Son of Zophah, of Asher (1 Chr 7:37)
125. Goddess of the dawn
127. Srs. of the Immaculate Conception, initially
128. Son of Benjamin (Gen 46:21)
129. New beginning?
130. Biblical symbol of power