Valerian's Sacrifice Chapter Summary

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton roll in the Catholic Church was a sister. She became a sister after her husband died. When she was a sister she created Sisters of Charity. Sisters of Charity is for girls to help serve the poor. She created the Sisters of Charity in 1858 in Maryland. She also created an all girls Catholic school. She created the first American Catholic school, St. Joseph Academy. ¨Afterward a group of buildings, embracing a residence for the Sisters, a novitiate, a boarding-school for young girls, a school for poor children, and an orphan asylum, was erected (http://www.elizabethannseton.org ).¨ She created many things that helped people. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton did not have any miracles. Although she did many great things, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was the patron saint of dead children and parents, people who work on the ocean, and widows. Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was crucial in the Catholic Church because of her decision to go into the church and what she contributed and how she helped the poor and how she relates to life

In the source “The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas,” the narrative of a few early Christians who died for their beliefs is told. The two martyred women, named Perpetua and Felicitas, along with a few other followers of the religion were imprisoned because they identified themselves as Christians and refused to offer sacrifice to the Roman Emperor. The Christians were sentenced to death by beast for this. The source illustrate the problems Christians had in navigating the cultural realities of life in the Roman empire. This can be observed along with the struggles involved in class, family, and gender.

Another quality I wanted in a Confirmation Saint was for me to have a great interest in her. The fact that made her the most compelling saint was, she found the Cross of Jesus. In the year 326 Helen traveled to Jerusalem after having a dream about the location of the

returned, but not as the man she had married. At first Orleanna saw the man she married, but

Characters and Background: I just got in reading this book called variant by Robison wells with a total of 373 pages. This book is about a boy named Benson Fisher Who gets enrolled into a new school program called Maxfield Academy. This is a very suspicious school to Benson because it has a barbed wire fence that surrounds the entire school. There are no teachers or adults in the building at all, and There are three gangs called Variant, Havoc, and the Society, but the thing that makes suspense in the most suspicious, is the fact that everyone seems to be okay with this. Out of the three gangs that are at the school, Benson decided to be a Variant also known as the “V’s”. The V's are the smallest gang That consists of only 18 people. The largest gang is the Society. The Society are

mom (Ruth) keep the baby. Further on we are at the scene of the birth, in which Pilate is in

“In just seven years, from 1532 to 1538, eight million Indians were converted to Christianity.” Whether one believes the Virgin de Guadalupe appeared to Juan Diego on the hill or believe that Guadalupe was created to convert the Indians to the Catholic Church, the legend of Guadalupe as we know her today begins at this time.

which is something many would like to learn (Solomon, 2013). People listen when she speaks and seek her out for council. Pastor Caesar, who is also the opinion leader, was preaching about a man named John who was attending

By comparing the following primary sources, “The Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas” and “The Rape of Lucretia,” historians can learn about the archetypes of Roman society. The former text, written in 202 or 203 CE, is a prison diary of a young martyr in Carthage. The protagonist, Perpetua, is arrested and sentenced to death because she refused to renounce her Christian faith. Despite having a newborn and hearing consistent outcry from her father to renounce her faith, Perpetua refused to absolve from Christianity. Prior to her execution, she and her comrades experience visions of entering Heaven and specifics of how their deaths would be bestowed upon them. These visions provided comfort to the prisoners because they legitimized the belief in God, as well as sanctioned the power of God to perform miracles. As God willed it, Perpetua, the “most valiant and blessed martyrs”, was ultimately executed in the arena. The latter text, written in 17 AD by Roman historian, Livy, is a story of propaganda about the rape of a honorable woman named Lucretia. Lucretia, Tarquinius Conlatinus’s wife, was the quintessential example of a Roman martyr. She was applauded for her modest, hospitable, and dutiful nature. Tragically, she was forcibly raped by the emperor’s son, Sextus Tarquinius. Consequently, Brutus, Tarquinius, and Lucretia’s father, did not object while witnessing Lucretia commit suicide in order to preserve her and her family’s

More than most religions, Christianity put a great emphasis on organization and structure. There was also great value placed on missionary work and spreading out the area that conversions took place, believing that the world must be constantly battled in the name of God. Christianity stressed that they had possession of exclusive truth and its intolerance of other religions. Christianity had, and continues to have, much confidence in its religion, which is one reason why it has had so much success and a great number of converts. Another reason Christianity was able to gain so many converts was because of the amount of women that joined. It was seen to be a more upper class thing at the time, so women would join and then convert their husbands and children. Once lower class people saw that this was the thing to do, they also joined and converted many of the less fortunate people. Women had a great part in the spread of Christianity and influenced

played a lesser role in foreign politics than her husband. She did, however, maintain contacts with the Church. She sent gifts to French abbots and German hermits along with open contact

After being betrayed and captured by the most heinous survivors of the human race, B Smith lands back in the clutches of a fiend she had hoped to never see again, someone who is intent on making her suffer in the most tortuous ways. Discovering the fate of loved ones from B's past adds to the agony and calls into question just how much B is willing to sacrifice in the name of justice.It is interesting and awesome

Many of the women who converted early on were pregnant women. Therefore the pregnant woman would have her child or children and theyd to be members of the church. It would take time but after a while as the children of the church grow up they'd learn the practices of the church and continue it within their own

1. A decree concerning the symbol of faith and matters of faith and morals. Tradition and Scripture were both upheld as valid sources of divine revelation.

In the town though, honor is not defined by race or color. The Vicario brothers are cousins to Santiago, yet when Santiago died the Arab families were "perplexed and sadâ?¦but none harbored the ideas of vengeance" (94). After they killed Santiago, the brothers went to the parish house, not for repentance, but because they would be "safe from the Arabs" (91) and "were comforted by the honor of having done their duty, and the only thing that worried them was the persistence of the smell [of death]" (91). Before their release, their mother Pura asked Father Amador "to confess her sons in jail, but Pedro Vicario refused, and convinced his brother that they had nothing to repent" (95). That scene gives the reader a picture of how the twins viewed the killing as being above their religion,