Franciscan Foundations Puzzle Crossword

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Catholicism has 30 clues. Answers range from 5 to 14 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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Patron saint of animals, creator of the Franciscan way of living.
Leader of the Muslim people in Egypt whom Francis meets with.
The marks that Francis received on his body that demonstrated his desire to suffer for God’s sake.
An ill person whom Francis avoided early in life, but came around to serve after his conversion.
After Francis declares to the bishop that he is no longer his father’s son, he takes off his _____ to show his dedication.
This Franciscan order wears large hoods.
This Franciscan order gives witness to the Gospel through ministries, spiritual work, and service of healing.
The 3rd Order ______ Franciscan order focuses on penance through fasting, abstinence, and self denial.
This Franciscan order focuses on fraternal communion, which is community outreach to show the rest of the world Christian love.
This is the term for Francis’ change of heart that occurs after his teenage years of partying.
The term for respectful dialogue with other religious traditions, according to William J Short Ofm.
The Franciscan _________ is awakened in Franciscans to emulate the desire to serve that Francis displayed throughout his life.
Mother ______ Beasley was a freed slave who taught African American children in Georgia and donated her inheritance to the Catholic Church.
Universal _______ is the idea that even though there are different branches of Franciscanism, members can come together via shared values.
Before penance became ________, you used to have to confess your sins in public and receive a public penance.
This is a special element to Franciscan living, as it allows followers to rid themselves of materialistic distractions and dedicate themselves to what is truly important.
A form of art that depicts the person of focus and important events in his or her life.
This man was an early Franciscan who wrote texts referring to Francis and is a primary source of information about him.
The experience of wanting more than one needs.
Some kind of right relationship around power and authority.
Francis’s and Clare’s home town.
These are ten days of repentance, starting with Rosh Hashanah, and ending with Yom Kippur.
The fifth ____ caused Francis to travel to Egypt to make peace.
On Oct. 10, 2020, this young Italian was beatified at a special Mass in the city of Assisi, putting the late teenager just one step away from sainthood.
The Mirror of ________ is an argument taken from the acts and words of Saint Francis in favour of what a party within the Franciscan Order considered to be the true Franciscan life.
A follower of Francis, this person was the first woman to write a set of monastic guidelines and is the patron saint of eye disease.
A form of poetry, likely from Ireland, that has an AABBA rhyme scheme.
A form of Japanese poetry composed of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line.
This is considered Francis’s spouse.
Those that kept Francis’s original ideas after leaving for Egypt; they were eventually put to death for their radical way of living.

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