21 x 21 Crossword: “Ssss…Snake in the Grass”
1. Valley where David slew Goliath (1 Sam 21:10)
5. 1666 apparition site in France
9. "Born Free" lioness
13. Son of Jacob by Zilpah (DR)
17. City where Esther lived
18. Father of King Ahab
19. Bread (Heb.)
21. "Holy" city on the Vire
22. When Satan caused the fall of humanity, it was his...
26. Non-ordained
27. Father of Shimei (1 Kings 4:18)
28. Sicilian volcano, active since 1500 BCE
29. "Behold, he is coming ___ the clouds..." (Rev 1:7)
30. Jewish blessing
32. Plod along
33. St. Joan Elizabeth Bichier des ___, virgin (d.1838, f.8-26)
34. Aslan's pride?
35. ___ Paulo, Brazil
36. Zeus took this form to be with Leda, a mortal
37. Traditional site of the Transfiguration
40. Bl. James of ___, religious (and glassblower) (d.1491, f.10-11)
43. Satanic parody of a miracle of Jesus?
47. Secondo ___, shroud photographer
48. ___ Nobis Pacem
49. Bad day for Caesar
50. Canaanite idols
51. Servant of God, Fr. Patrick ___, of Chattanooga, Tenn. (d.1878)
52. ___ et orbi
53. Mo. of All Saints Day
54. Jewel on Aaron's breastplate
55. St. Peter Martinez played an important role in driving them out of Spain
56. Catholic actor Mineo who played Uriah in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (d.1976)
57. Bygone blade
58. Major city in Bhutan
59. "___, Joy of Man's Desiring" (Bach classic)
60. Those with nothing good to say about this world?
67. Catchall abbr.
68. Empty, or for naught
69. "...worship the ___ of heaven..." (Acts 7:42)
70. Parish catechetical leader (abbr.)
71. St. ___Stein, OCarm (d.1942, f.8-9)
73. "Dead flies corrupt and ___ the perfumer’s oil..." (Eccl 10:1)
75. Addis Ababa's land: Abbr.
76. Purchase out of slavery, for example
77. "As you enter a house, ___ it peace." (Mat 10:12)
78. Gals of guys with gats
79. Really wide shoe size
80. "On the ___ to Damascus" (Place of conversion)
81. Book after Gal
82. What his parishioners said when their pastor was scared to preach?
86. Society of St. Edward, initially
87. "...that they may be brought to perfection ___..." (John 17:33)
88. Grimace
89. Surgery sites, for short
90. The Temple of ___, rock-cut Egyptian temple
92. C.H. ___, Welsh Protestant New Testament scholar
93. "___, Tekel, and Peres" (The writing on the wall)
95. Town near where Judith's husband Manasseh was buried (Jud 8:3)
98. Florence's river
99. Italian city home to the relics of St. Nicholas
100. Era
103. Saintly king of Norway (d.1030, f.7-29)
104. When the priest used the wrong wording for the initiation rite, he caused a...
108. Notre ___
109. Son of Reuben (Gen 46:9)
110. Nazaria Ignacia March ___, religious, canonized by Pope Francis in 2018
111. Norse war god
112. Eyes, poetically
113. Free ___
114. Fall guy?
115. Novena prayers?
1. Latin 101 verb
2. Saintly Archbishop of Mainz (d.786, f.6-1)
3. Pergamum locale
4. Book before Zec
5. Catholic Venetian Renaissance artist Lorenzo ___ (d.1556)
6. "...and made his dwelling ___ us." (John 1:14)
7. Turkish city called Edessa in the Patristic era
8. “___ at my right hand..." (Psalm 110:1)
9. Water, vis-a-vis Baptism, e.g.
10. "The Screwtape Letters" author, C.S. ___
11. "...and your feet ___ in readiness for the gospel of peace." (Eph 6:15)
12. Byzantine chalice veil
13. Lewis' Narnian Christ figure
14. When the centurion didn't feel like preparing the crucifixion site, he gave this order to the condemned
15. "East of Eden" director Kazan
16. French saint invoked against the plague (d.1379, f.8-16)
20. Angels' and Padres' org.
23. Father of Eliab (Num 1:9)
24. Concubine of Abraham
25. Exorcism targets
31. "I will make mortals more ___ than pure gold..." (Is 13:12)
32. Spouse of Abram
33. Amazes
35. When the young sheep was overdriven in the desert, it was rejected for sacrifice because it was a...
36. ___ J. Lopes, Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
37. Nicholas II, the last ___ Russia
38. ___ in a Manger
39. Tab
41. One who denies Jesus is the Christ (1 John 2:22)
42. "___ Search For Meaning" (Viktor E. Frankl book)
43. Law
44. Saintly abbot of Saint-Omer in Flanders (d.717, f.11-6)
45. "For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not ___..." (James 1:23)
46. Shakespearean king of the fairies
48. "...the Lord God formed the man out of the ___ of the ground..." (Gen 2:7)
51. Bl. Anna ___ Gattorno, foundress (d.1900, f.5-6)
54. Saintly Cappadocian Father
55. Encounter
57. Srs. of Charity of St. Hyacinth, initially
58. Sing the Gloria, for example
59. Caleb's grandson (1 Chr 2:18)
61. "Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the ___"
62. Come about
63. Lamp of the body (Mat 6)
64. Ending of numerous pharaohs' names that means "at peace"
65. Halloween option
66. Obey
71. "Your teeth are like a flock of ___ to be shorn..." (SoS 4:2)
72. “One of the Twelve, the one who ___ with me into the dish." (Mark 14:20)
73. Chinatown neighbor
74. "Our Father's ___" (Hahn and Cavins Bible Study)
76. French brother
78. St. ___ Mashtots, Armenian theologian and hymnologist (d.440, f.2-17)
79. Judge, and son of Gera (Jgs 3:15)
82. "Now Simon Peter was standing there keeping ___." (John 18:25)
83. Weathertop, a large hill in Eriador (LOTR)
84. Symbolic name of the city where the Lord was crucified (Rev 11:8)
85. Asia Minor region
91. Christmas lights sites
92. Practice
93. Lemuel's realm (Prov 31:1)
94. Camaldolese Hermits, initially
95. Murray ___, Franciscan author of "The Journey and the Dream"
96. Apple spray
97. Day break?
98. Brynhild's brother, in myth
99. "He ___ and died to take away my sins." (How Great Thou Art)
100. Ancestor of Jesus (Luke 3:28)
101. "...but do not have love, I ___ nothing." (1 Cor 13:3)
102. Council site in 1027 where the Truce of God was enacted
105. Handle clumsily
106. "...y paz en la tierra a los hombres que ___ el Senor." (Gloria a Dios)
107. "___ Mediocri" (1893 Leo XIII encyclical)