Sending of the Holy spirit

By 64 AD, Christianity made it to what city?

Rome

The spreading of Christianity was recorded by _____________________________________ in the book of ______

St. Luke the Evangelist, Book of Acts

St. Peter wanted to restore the number of Apostles to 12, who was the 12th after much prayer

Matthias

Pentecost ('fiftieth') occurs how many days after resurrection

50 days

Where were the disciples when they heard a violent wind?

Cenacle

Pentecost in Jewish tradition happens 50 days after passover thanking God for:

1) Harvest, 2) Sinai covenant

On the day of Pentecost, how many Jews were baptized as Christians?

3000

The day of the lord

refers to the moment when God would intervene in human history

What did St. Peter suggest?

Pentecost is the start of a period that would end with the 2nd coming of Christ

After the Jews arrest the apostles, who told them not to kill them lest they may be doing the work of God

Gamaliel

The apostles found it hard to minister to the churches spiritual needs without people to administer the churches temporal (material) goods, they appoint 7 deacons which were

1)Stephen the Protomartyr.

2)Philip the Evangelist.

3)Prochorus.

4)Nicanor.

5)Timon.

6)Parmenas.

7) Nicholas.

There was evidence that the early church had deaconesses like:

Phoebe

As the apostles were being persecuted, they flee going to cities such as:

Judea and Samaria

Who goes to Samaria and preformed miracles and baptized many?

St. Philip the Evangelist

The spirit has not yet come upon the Samaritans, so St_________ and ____________ go and lay hands on them and they are confirmed

St. Peter and John

Proselytes

Gentiles who go to the synagogue and convert

God-fearers

Gentiles who go to the synagogue but do not convert

The Ethiopian official (eunuch) reading from which old testament book ( He was a God-fearer that St. Philip met)

Isaiah

Simony

The selling of church sacraments

St. Philip also converts:

Simon Magus (Simon the Magician)

Who was converted by St. Peter in Caesarea

Cornelius (centurion)

In the book of acts, the Holy spirit descends upon the people at 3 points, which are:

1. On the Jews in Jerusalem

2. On the 'half-Jews' in Samaria

3. Gentiles in Caesarea

Who was the only Apostle present during the 3 Pentecost's?

St. Peter

What was the reason for the council of Jerusalem in 49 AD?

Gentile converts were being circumcised due to the pressure of the conservative Jews ( In other words, they must become Jewish before Christian)

King Herod (another one) puts James, the brother of John to death, and when he saw that the Jews were pleased he arrests St. Peter but...

The angel freed him from the chains

How did St. Peter die?

Crucified upside down in Rome in 64 AD under Emperor Nero

After St. Peter's departure, who becomes the next leader of the church?

James the just

Saul of _____

Tarsus (asia minor)

Road to Damascus

Saul's conversion to Paul the Apostle (encounter with Jesus)

Who healed him from his blindness?

Ananias

St. paul goes to Antioch where he meets

Barnabas

St. Paul and Barnabas' first mission trip was to

Cyprus (birthplace of Barnabas)

They go around

Perga, Iconium and Lystra (he heals a crippled man there)

The Greek locals thought that they were the Greek gods

Hermes and Zeus

After St.Paul was stoned by the Jews he went to:

Derbe

Who does ST. Paul take instead of Barnabas due to a conflict (to take John in the 2nd journey heading back to cyprus)

Silas

When St. Paul and Barnabas go back to Lystra, they meet a man called ____________ in which they write 2 letters to

Timothy

When they were in Troas, St. Paul received a vision that God wanted him to go to:

Macedonia

Which was the most hostile city they visited

Thessalonica

They also visited

Berea and Athens

Which city was a port city

Corinth

After St. Paul converted a synagogue leader, they drag him to the Roman Governor of Greece named

Gallio

Gallio releases him and he heads to

Antioch

In 52 AD what happened?

first scriptures were written

In Ephesus, who were the people worshiping (Idol)

Artemis (goddess of wild animals)

When Paul leaves Ephesus, who does he meet in Troas

ST. Luke

Who fell from the window during Mass (earliest recording of a Mass)

Eutychus

When St. Paul was imprisoned, he was sent to _________________ under Governor ___________

Caesarea, Felix

Received a vision to go to...

Rome

Felix is replaced by...

Festus

Paul demanded to be tried in Rome because....

He was a Roman citizen

Who goes with him?

St. Luke and Aristarchus

There was a storm and they go to

Malta

The ship they were on was called...

The twin gods

They land in an Italian city called

Puteoli

In 61 Ad, St. Pauls was put into

House Arrest

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