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| those distinguishing themselves in the Catholic Faith either through a life of heroic faith, or martyrdom in the name of Jesus Christ |
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| latine word meaning "Holy" |
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| the process by which a person officialy becomes a saint of the Catholic Church |
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| Latin word referring to the official submission of a candidates name to the Vatican for sainthood |
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| Title referring to a member of the vatican whose sole purpose is to challenege all proof supporting a person's sainthood |
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| Honor given to someone before beatification, it means the person is venerable, deserving the utmost respect, and has been a model of catholic virtue |
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| step in the process to sainthood, in which the pope officially declares the candidate as having been especially blessed by God |
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| an Irish community of nuns who worked in India. Mother Teresa left her family to join them |
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| The missionaries of charity |
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| a religious order founded by Mother Teresa whose sole purpose is to work with only the world's poorest communities. They perform most of their work in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe |
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| someone who during the time of the persecutions, renounced their christianity to save their lives, then tried to re-enter the Church after the persecutions were over |
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| being tortured, killed, or punished in some way for one's beliefs |
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| catalogue or list of Christian martyrs arranged in the calender order of their anniverseries or feasts |
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| a certificate issued during the reign of Emperor Decius to prove you sacrificed to the Roman gods that day |
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| having to do with Judaism, or Israel |
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| a movement started by Adolf Hitler to help extinguish the catholic Church in Nazi Germany |
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| National Socialist schools |
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| schools started by Adolf Hitler to replace Catholic Schools |
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| The Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association |
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| a version of the Catholic Church started in Communist China by the government to counteract the Roman Catholic Church's presence in China |
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| issued in 313 A.D. by Emperor Constantine and Emperor Licinius. It granted freedom of Worship for the first time throughout the Roman Empire, simultaneously ending the Roman Persecution of christians |
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