All Saints I Quiz

Not about the band, nor about the tube station they were named after !

In the middle Ages, when few people could read, it was of little use to write the names on the images and paintings of Saints in churches. Yet people needed to be able to recognise the saints when they saw them; there might be a farmer who wanted St Cornelius to keep the pest from his cattle, or a woman asking good St Bride to help her sick child. Margo often calls on good St Anthony to help her find things ! Thus, each saint carried a special emblem for recognition purposes.
This can be an instrument of their martyrdom, or some other object connected with their lives or special devotions; there are craftsman saints and also patron saints and many are connected with animals.

So for part one of this quiz, can you name the emblem associated with the following Saints ? Some have more than one, so 0.5pts for each emblem correctly named. Likewise for any place or object with which they are associated as a patron saint.

1.St Matthew
2.St Mark
3.St Luke
4.St John the Evangelist
5.St John the Baptist
6.St Anselm
7.St Anthony
8.St Catherine
9.St Christopher
10.St Clare
11.St David
12.St Dorothy
13.St Edward (the Confessor)
14.St George
15.St Michael
16.St Nicholas
17.St Sebastian
18.St Zita
19.St Giles
20.St Jerome

Good luck !

1) St matthew's emblem is a Lance - patron of accountants, bankers etc. also security forces and guards etc. Places: Salerno in Italy and Trier in Germany.
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3) St Luke is often seen with either a book or more commonly a brush because he was a painter. He is patron of Artists, book binders and brewers!! Also glassworkers. And - unmarried men!!. Places: Hermersdorf, Germany.

4) St John (my favourite gospel also my confirmation saint) is mostly seen with a chalice and serpent. Now in my confirmation classes I learned that this was to allude to the cup of sorrow foretold by Jesus. He is also seen with and eagle (to represent the evangelist and a book and sometimes a cauldron. He is patron of authors, booksellers, printers, typesetters etc. Places: Mostly Asia Minor as that is where he set up churches.

reformedcharacter said:

1) St matthew's emblem is a Lance - patron of accountants, bankers etc. also security forces and guards etc. Places: Salerno in Italy and Trier in Germany.
2)

I can see I'm gonna be awarding oodles of half-points at random here. Half-point each for lance; accountants/bankers; security forces/guards; Salerno; and Trier. I make that 2.5pts

You could have accrued further points for mentioning that icons often depict him with a bag of money, and that additional emblems are a book and an angel, as per the attached image:


Leader:
[glow=red,2,300]Elsie 2.5pts[/glow]

reformedcharacter said:

3) St Luke is often seen with either a book or more commonly a brush because he was a painter. He is patron of Artists, book binders and brewers!! Also glassworkers. And - unmarried men!!. Places: Hermersdorf, Germany.

Half-point each for book and brush/painter, although the tradition that Luke was a painter seems to have no basis in fact. Several images of Mary appeared in later centuries claiming him as a painter but these claims were proved false. Because of this tradition, however, he is considered a patron of painters of pictures and is often portrayed as painting pictures of Mary.

Half-point also for book binders, brewers, glassworkers, unmarried men and Hermersdorf. I make that 3.5pts.

What you could have had:
St Luke is often shown with an ox or a calf - often winged -because these are the symbols of sacrifice -- the sacrifice Jesus made for all the world.
He is also the patron of physicians, surgeons, doctors, goldsmiths and sculptors.

Leaderboard:
[glow=red,2,300]Elsie 6pts[/glow]

reformedcharacter said:

4) St John (my favourite gospel also my confirmation saint) is mostly seen with a chalice and serpent. Now in my confirmation classes I learned that this was to allude to the cup of sorrow foretold by Jesus. He is also seen with and eagle (to represent the evangelist and a book and sometimes a cauldron. He is patron of authors, booksellers, printers, typesetters etc. Places: Mostly Asia Minor as that is where he set up churches.

Easier one to score, this. Half-point for chalice; serpent; eagle; book; cauldron; authors; booksellers; printers; typesetters (publishers) and Asia Minor. Can't add anything to your answer. Well done, you know your confirmation saint well, I'm pleased to report ! ;D 5pts.

Leaderboard:
[glow=red,2,300]Elsie 11pts[/glow]

[WolfLord]

2.St Mark is usually shown with a lion, winged lion and books. Patron saint of attorneys, barristers, captives, Egypt, Glaziers and imprisoned people
5.St John the Baptist is shown with a cross in hand, with a lamb or with a severed head on a platter. Saint of Baptism, bird dealers, cutters, the Philippines, epileptics, farriers, French Canadians, Genoa, hailstorms, Knights Hospitaller, Knights of Malta, lambs, printers, tailors.
6.St Anselm is shown as a Benedictine monk or an Archbishop with a ship in the background
7.St Anthony is patron of amputees, animals, boatmen,domestic animals, elderly people, pregnant women, fishermen, harvests and mail
8.St Catherine is shown as a woman strapped to a spiked wheel. Patron st of potters, spinners, archivists, attornies, barristers, dying people, teachers, girls, librarians, mechanics, millers, nurses
9.St Christopher is shown as a giant man wading through a flood, carrying a staff with a young Jesus on his shoulders. Patron of archers, bachelors, travellers, fruit dealers, gardeners and toothache.
10.St Clare is shown as a woman with a monstrance in her hand. Patron saint of embroiderers, eyes, gilders, goldsmiths, laundry workers, needle workers, telephones and televisions

[WolfLord]

11.. St David is the patron saint of Wales, Pembrokeshire, vegetarians and poets
12.St Dorothy is the patron saint of brides, the death of children, difficult marriages, parents of large families and widows
13.St Edward is shown as an elderly king offering a ring or coin to St John who is disguised as a beggar. Patron saint of difficult marriages, kings and separated spouses
14.St George is shown as a horseback rider killing a dragon with a lance. He is the patron saint of England
15.St Michael is the saint of ambulance drivers, artists, bakers and banking
16.St Nicholas is saint of children, sailers, fishermen, the falsely accused, pawnbrokers and thieves
17.St Sebastian is shown as a youth tied to a tree being shot by arrows. He is saint to archers, armourers, arrowsmiths and athletes
18.St Zita is saint to lost keys, maids, servers and waiters
19.St Giles is shown as a hermit. He is saint to disabled people, cancer patients, hermits and horses
20.St Jerome is an aged monk in the desert reading the Bible, often with a lion. He is saint to archeologists, librarians and school children

Will score 1-7 first.
2) St Mark - half-point each for winged lion; book; attorneys/barristers(clumped together as "notaries");captives/prisoners(count as one);Egypt(he is patriarch of Alexandria) and glaziers. Well-done, you could have had Venice. 3pts.
5)St John the Baptist. Well, you could have had any of this lot :
baptism; bird dealers; diocese of Charleston, South Carolina; Colletorto, Italy; converts; convulsions; convulsive children; cutters; Dagupan City, Philippines; diocese of Dodge City, Kansas; epilepsy; epileptics; farriers; French Canadians; Fürstenberg, Germany; Genoa, Italy; hail; hailstorms; Jordan; Knights Hospitaller; Knights of Malta; lambs; Leioa, Spain; Macau, China; Maltese Knights; monastic life; Monte San Giovanni Campano, Italy; Monza, Italy; motorways; Palermo, Sicily; diocese of Paterson, New Jersey; Penzance, Cornwall, England; diocese of Portland, Maine; Pozzallo, Sicily; printers; Puerto Rico; Quebec; Ragusa, Sicily; Saint-Jean-le-Blanc, Loiret, France; San Juan Indian Pueblo; San Juan, Puerto Rico; Sassano, Italy; diocese of Savannah, Georgia; spasms; tailors; Teising, Germany; Torino, Italy; Umbria, Italy; Wenden, Germany; Wenings, Germany; Wroclaw, Poland
But you haven't been too greedy, so I can give half a point each for the seventeen you gave, less one for lambs as I can't give it twice ! Would have allowed extra 0.5 for "he is usually shown clad in animal skin" ;) 8pts
6) St Anselm - half-point for the sailing ship and half-point for "he is seen dressed as a Benedictine monk". You could have had "often seen with the Virgin Mary appearing before him" 1pt
7) St Anthony - you could have had any of these :
(Patronage) against shipwrecks; against starvation; against starving; American Indians; amputees; animals; asses; barrenness; boatmen; Brazil; diocese of Beaumont, Texas; domestic animals; Dorado, Puerto Rico; elderly people; expectant mothers; faith in the Blessed Sacrament; Ferrazzano, Italy; fishermen; harvests; horses; Lisbon, Portugal; lost articles; lower animals; mail; mariners; diocese of Masbate, Philippines; oppressed people; Padua, Italy; paupers; poor people; Portugal; pregnant women; sailors; Sandia Indian Pueblo; seekers of lost articles; shipwrecks; starvation; starving people; sterility; swineherds; Tigua Indians; travel hostesses; travellers; watermen (Representation) book; bread; Infant Jesus; lily.
Also depicted thus, with a T-shaped staff and a bell.

Of these you have mentioned nine, so 4.5 points.

Leaderboard:
1. Wolfman 16.5pts
2. Elsie 11pts

wolfman said:

8.St Catherine is shown as a woman strapped to a spiked wheel. Patron st of potters, spinners, archivists, attornies, barristers, dying people, teachers, girls, librarians, mechanics, millers, nurses
9.St Christopher is shown as a giant man wading through a flood, carrying a staff with a young Jesus on his shoulders. Patron of archers, bachelors, travellers, fruit dealers, gardeners and toothache.
10.St Clare is shown as a woman with a monstrance in her hand. Patron saint of embroiderers, eyes, gilders, goldsmiths, laundry workers, needle workers, telephones and televisions

8) Patronage:Aalsum, Nederlands; apologists; craftsmen who work with a wheel (potters, spinners, etc.); archivists; attornies; barristers; diocese of Dumaguete, Philippines; dying people; educators; girls; Heidesheim am Rhein, Germany; jurists; knife grinders; knife sharpeners; Kuldiga, Latvia; lawyers; librarians; libraries; Mähring, Germany; maidens; mechanics; millers; nurses; old maids; philosophers; potters; preachers; scholars; schoolchildren; scribes; secretaries; spinners; spinsters; stenographers; students; tanners; teachers; theologians; turners; University of Paris; unmarried girls; wheelwrights; Zejtun, Malta
12 right, plus the correct representation of the spiked wheel (though she often holds a book as well ;)) 6.5pts

9) St Christopher holds patronage of things related to travel and travellers: people who carry things; against lightning; against pestilence; archers; automobile drivers; automobilists; bachelors; boatmen; bookbinders; bus drivers; taxi drivers; epilepsy; epileptics;floods; fruit dealers; fullers; gardeners; hailstorms; holy death; lorry drivers; mariners; market carriers; motorists; porters; sailors; storms; sudden death; surfers; toothache; transportation; transportation workers; travellers; watermen
Six mentions, plus correct emblems of Christ-child on shoulder and staff. I make that 4pts.

10) St Clare holds patronage to: embroiderers; eye disease; eyes; gilders; goldsmiths; gold workers; good weather; laundry workers; needle workers; Santa Clara Indian Pueblo; telegraphs; telephones; television; television writers.
You have eight mentions, plus her emblem, the Monstrance. She is normally seen in a brown habit with cord round waist. So 4.5pts. I'd better show what a Monstrance looks like (it's a special holder for the holy sacraments):


Tally at half-way stage:

1. Wolfman 31.5pts
2. Elsie 11pts

wolfman said:

11.. St David is the patron saint of Wales, Pembrokeshire, vegetarians and poets
12.St Dorothy is the patron saint of brides, the death of children, difficult marriages, parents of large families and widows
13.St Edward is shown as an elderly king offering a ring or coin to St John who is disguised as a beggar. Patron saint of difficult marriages, kings and separated spouses

11) Will award you 1.5pts for Wales/Pembrokeshire; vegetarians and poets. The best-known miracle associated with Saint David is said to have taken place when he was preaching in the middle of a large crowd at the Synod of Llanddewi Brefi. When those at the back complained that they could not see or hear him, the ground on which he stood is reputed to have risen up to form a small hill so that everyone had a good view. A white dove was seen settling on his shoulder — a sign of God's grace and blessing.
Thus St David is usually depicted with a dove on his shoulder, and you could also have had leek as an emblem.
12) 2.5 points for five associations. St Dorothy is also the patron saint of gardeners (and mysteriously of Prussia), and is usually depicted holding the Christchild by hand, and holding a basket of flowers and fruit in the other. There is a conflicting account of her martyrdom which is researchable on the net.
13) St Edward is of course the Confessor, usually depicted holding a large ring or handing it to a pilgrim. He was England's patron before St George. Half-point each for king, ring, beggar, difficult marriages, and separated spouses, making 2.5pts.

Leaderboard:
1. Wolfman 38pts
2. Elsie 11pts

wolfman said:

14.St George is shown as a horseback rider killing a dragon with a lance. He is the patron saint of England
15.St Michael is the saint of ambulance drivers, artists, bakers and banking
16.St Nicholas is saint of children, sailers, fishermen, the falsely accused, pawnbrokers and thieves
17.St Sebastian is shown as a youth tied to a tree being shot by arrows. He is saint to archers, armourers, arrowsmiths and athletes

14. Your description amounts to "Knight with dragon" - 1pt; patron saint of England 0.5pts. Could have had more for saying "patron of cavalrymen/chivalry/soldiers" or for the additional emblem of a red cross on a shield or banner. Never mind, 1.5pts in all.
15. St Michael the Archangel has a whole host of patronages according to this page:
www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintm06.htm
......but you've chosen four good ones. His emblem is a sword and scales which he clutches, resplendent with his angel wings. He is sometimes depicted trampling a dragon or the devil. 2pts.
16. St Nicholas - or Santa as we know him - is all those things you describe, so 3pts. He is also patron saint of captives, and his emblem (strangely) is three balls. Icons also depict him alongside a tub containing three children.
17. St Sebastian correct as stated for 2.5pts. He is also patron of ironmongers and potters.

Leaderboard:
1. Wolfman 47pts
2. Elsie 11pts

wolfman said:

18.St Zita is saint to lost keys, maids, servers and waiters
19.St Giles is shown as a hermit. He is saint to disabled people, cancer patients, hermits and horses
20.St Jerome is an aged monk in the desert reading the Bible, often with a lion. He is saint to archeologists, librarians and school children

18. St Zita is the patron of domestic servants and her emblem is a serving maid with key and rosary. So 0.5pt for keys and 0.5 for maids/servers/waiters. 1pt.
19. Apart from the ones you correctly named, St Giles is patron to beggars and blacksmiths. He is indeed depicted as a hermit and often simply as an old man, but more often than not with a hind:

2pts.
20. I have as my notes, simply: "Emblems - Lion, Cardinal's hat and book; patron of students". So, I think, 0.5 each for lion; monk; bible; schoolchildren; and taking your word on the archeologists and librarians, a further 1.0 also, making 3pts.

FINAL TABLE:
1. Wolfman 53pts
2. Elsie 11pts

Quiz closed, and Wolfman and Elsie have now both achieved a "state of grace". ;D