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Activities Using the booklets (p43-50)

Activities Using the booklets (p43-50). What is meant by the regular church? What was the rule of St Benedict? Describe a typical day in a monks life How did monasteries help: Travellers The poor The sick Educate the young. 15mins. SAINTS AND RELICS.

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Activities Using the booklets (p43-50)

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  1. ActivitiesUsing the booklets (p43-50) • What is meant by the regular church? • What was the rule of St Benedict? • Describe a typical day in a monks life • How did monasteries help: • Travellers • The poor • The sick • Educate the young 15mins

  2. SAINTS AND RELICS Relicswere usually the bones of saints or objects connected to saints. To make each cathedral and each little church in the land unique, each had its own holy relic Tales of miracles that supposedly happened because of the presence of a holy relic were very popular.

  3. The foot reliquary of St James 1st Class Relic: A part of the Saint (bone, hair, etc.) & the instruments of Christ's passion 2nd Class Relic: Something owned by the Saint or instruments of torture used against a martyr 3rd Class Relic: Something that has been touched to a 1st or 2nd Class Relic. a medieval tooth relic Medieval Relics Shroud of Turin

  4. Saint Silvan Died circa 350 Blessed Imelda Lambertini, d. 1333 St. Vincent de Paul, d. 1660 St. Bernadette Soubirous, d. 1879 within a year of death all that is usually left is the skeleton and teeth, with traces of the tissues on them Saint Veronica Giuliani, Died 1727 Saint Pio of Pietrelcina d. 1968 Some bodies can defy nature and these are known to be incorruptible by the Catholic Church

  5. St Andrewearly 1st century — mid to late 1st century AD Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter About the middle of the tenth century, Andrew became the patron saint of Scotland.

  6. St GeorgeC: 275/281 – 23 April 303 A Roman soldier and priest in the Guard of Diocletian Executed for his refusal to sacrifice to pagan gods and to convert Tortured on a wheel of swords and then beheaded on April 23rd 303

  7. St DavidB. c500 AD - d. c580 AD The only native born patron saint Founder of numerous churches Canonized by Pope Calixtus II in 1120

  8. the heart of Saint George and a piece of his head National Shrine to St Andrews St Mary's RC Cathedral, Edinburgh St George's Chapel

  9. St David's Shrine (St David’s Cathedral) A reliquary that was created to hold the arm of Saint Patrick Well used by St Patrick to baptise people

  10. Pilgrimages • Caskets with relics were called shrinesand often set up somewhere inside a church. • People believed relics had supernatural powers and made special journeys or pilgrimagesto them

  11. Thanksgiving Penance illness Iona Abbey Canterbury Jerusalem Rome

  12. ActivitiesUsing the PowerPoint and the booklets (p40-44) • What were saints and relics? • What sort of things would be considered a relic? • What powers were relics supposed to have? • Why did people go on pilgrimages? • What were the most important pilgrimages in Scotland and England? • Why did peoples faith in saints, relics and pilgrimages make the church rich? 15mins

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