21 x 21 Crossword: “Punning in Place?”
1 "Lacrimabili ___" (1912 Pius X encyclical)
6 Allied oneself
11 "You can tread upon the ___ and the viper..." (Psalm 91:13)
14 Sisters of St. Anne, initially
17 Sts. ___ and Felix, soldiers and Diocletian martyrs (d.303, f.7-12)
18 Angry
19 Saul's grandfather
20 Malchus' loss (John 18:10-11)
21 Terrorist threat in NW Jordan?
25 Jonathan slew him in 1 Mac 9:66
27 Elohim
28 "Baruch atah ___" (Hebrew prayer start)
29 "The Divine Comedy" poet
31 Fall guy?
32 Word often found after "blessed"
33 Where Doeg betrayed David (1 Sam 22)
34 Young woman (Heb.)
35 Wrath
36 Row of evergreen trees in a Mediterranean land?
41 St. Sebastian is this Brazilian city's patron
44 Grandson of Leah
47 Biblical witch's town
48 Modern Aram
49 Aged
50 "The Interior ___" (Teresa of Avila spiritual classic)
53 Deutercanonical book
55 Church fundraiser
57 How Cat Stevens recorded "Morning Has Broken"?
58 edu or org, e.g.
60 Kind of tradition
64 Book before 1 Thes
65 Bernadette, e.g.: Abbr.
66 “Do not ___ up for yourselves treasures on earth..." (Mat 6:19)
69 St. ___ of Hungary, son of King Stephen I (d.1031, f.11-4)
71 Judaism or Christianity, e.g. (abbr.)
73 Commandments number
74 High rise apartment for the speech impaired?
77 Catholic comedian Newhart
79 "Fr. ___" (movie starring Mark Wahlberg)
81 Jesus cured ten at once
82 "___ nostrum cotidianum da nobishodie..." (Pater Noster)
83 Parseghian of Notre Dame
84 ___ politik
86 "Whoever seeks to preserve his life will ___ it..." (Luke 17:33)
87 "Exuente ___ anno" (1888 Leo XIII encyclical)
88 American Catholic missionary association directed toward youth (abbr.)
89 Blessed by God with special abilities, maybe
92 Catholic musician Dion DiMucci genre
97 Vineyard owner Jezebel had murdered
99 St. Joan of ___ (d.1431, f.5-30)
100 St. Gianna Beretta ___, married laywoman (d.1962, f.4-28)
104 John Tracy ___, legendary Catholic U. historian
106 Grandson of Adam
107 "Danos hoy nuestro pan de cada ___" (Padre Nuestro)
108 Serial killer in a Portuguese town?
112 "So also I will allow the pride of Judah to ___..." (Jer 13:9)
114 What Nero accused the Christians of
115 Children's author Edward Irving Wortis, familiarly
116 Stigmatines, initially
119 Sixth Jewish month
121 Biblical abode of the dead
122 Stabs
125 Catholic Judge ___ Coney Barrett
126 Region between Galilee and Judea
128 Former Israeli PM's private jet?
131 ___, missa est.
132 "___: The Knight Templar" (2007 Swedish film)
133 Acknowleging papal primacy, as in the Eastern Churches
134 Deceive
135 ___ Aviv
136 "You are ___, Paul..." (Festus, Acts 26:24)
137 The "rock" on which Jesus would build his church (Greek)
138 Made a mistake
1 Orc of the Tower of Cirith (LOTR)
2 Traditional site of the Transfiguration
3 Domicile
4 ___ Bombadil, Tolkien character
5 Pope and martyr (222-230)
6 Water to wine, e.g.
7 Cova da ___, apparition site
8 The Sacrament of the Last Supper painter
9 Summer in France
10 Like mortal sin
11 Love one ___
12 "___ vacante", time between popes, e.g.
13 Bl. Miguel ___, SJ, martyr (d.1927, f.11-23)
14 Sower in Sidon?
15 St. ___ of Antioch, martyr (d.304, f.4-20)
16 Ancient Syria
22 They're exchanged at the altar
23 "...whoever aspires to the office of bishop desires a ___ task." (1 Tim 3:1)
24 "They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and ___..." (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
26 ___ Saba, ancient monastery overlooking the Kidron Valley
30 Not even
34 St. Angelo of ___, priest (d.1739, f.10-30)
35 St. ___ Jogues, SJ, North American Martyr (d.1646, f.10-19)
36 "Go to the ___, O sluggard, study her ways..." (Prov 6:6)
37 Treebeard, e.g.
38 Saintly abbot of Cluny (d.942, f.11-18)
39 Watch chain
40 How the woman at the well addressed Jesus (John 4:11)
42 “...they brought to him all who were ___...” (Mark 1:32)
43 "...as I sing my ___ to the king." (Psalm 45:2)
44 Cistercians, initially
45 St. Felix of ___, Bishop (d.584, f.7-7)
46 What a chocolate lover's nose knows?
51 "___ we forget"
52 Laud
54 Sepulcher
56 "___ the Beauty of the Earth" (Pierpoint hymn)
59 "...and dry them with the ___ around his waist." (John 13:5)
61 Bring in the sheaves
62 The greatest among the Anakim (Jos 14:15)
63 Son of Gershon (Ex 6:17)
67 Bank take-back
68 "Llena ___ de gracia." (Dios te Salve, Maria)
69 Letters after ees
70 Kosher, in a way
72 City now home to the traditional house of Mary
75 Prince of Midian (Jgs 7:25)
76 St. ___ of Gurk, noblewoman and widow (d.1045, f.6-27)
78 Hebrew liquid measures
80 Basilian educational Inst. in Houston (abbr.)
85 Entice to do wrong
89 David's prophet (2 Sam 24:11)
90 Son of Bela (1 Chr 7:7)
91 Town not dispossessed by Manasseh (Jgs 1:27)
93 Patron saint of Armenian clergy
94 St. Bridget of Sweden's husband, ___ Gudmarsson
95 Santa's little helper
96 His descendants were post exilic temple servants (Neh 7:47)
98 "Golden Girl" Arthur
101 Jacob's wives: ___ Rachel
102 "Awake, my soul; awake, ___ and harp!" (Ps 57:9)
103 Fabulous fabulist
105 Shepherd's tool
109 What one does to a scroll after reading it
110 St. ___, town in Cornwall England named for the Irish St. Ia
111 Proverbs (Heb. var.)
113 ___ pro nobis (Pray for us)
116 Concerned one
117 Killed, biblically
118 Bishops' meeting
119 "___ was in the beginning..."
120 Historian's concern
121 Ben ___, book before Isaiah
122 "...you ___ me in my mother’s womb." (Ps 139:13)
123 At hand
124 Ninth Greek letter
127 Ancestor of Jesus (Mat 1:3-4)
129 "Wheel of Fortune" purchase
130 "The sun and the ___ were darkened..." (Rev 9:2)