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C) Italy — Josephine Bakhita spent her life as a Canossian nun in Schio, in the Veneto region of northern Italy. She was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000 and is celebrated on February 8.
C) Confessions — Written around 397–400 AD, Augustine’s Confessions traces his restless journey to Christian faith, opening with the famous line: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in You.”
B) Antioch — Acts 11:26. Ancient Antioch (modern-day Antakya in southern Turkey) was the first great center of Gentile Christianity and the launching point for Paul’s missionary journeys.
B) Forty days — Jonah 3:4. “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” The city repented, the judgment did not fall, and Jonah discovered that God’s mercy has a wider reach than his prophet’s theology.
A) St. Pachomius B) St. Benedict of Nursia C) St. Anthony the Great D) St. Athanasius of Alexandria
C) St. Anthony the Great — born around 251 AD in Egypt, Anthony withdrew into the desert in his youth and is credited as the founder of Christian monasticism. His life was famously recorded by Athanasius of Alexandria in The Life of Anthony. The verse Anthony heard in church that prompted him to sell everything and enter the desert was Matthew 19:21.
A) On the banks of the Jordan River B) In a cave on Mount Horeb C) Under a broom tree in the wilderness D) At the altar on Mount Carmel
B) In a cave on Mount Horeb — 1 Kings 19:9–13. Elijah did flee to a broom tree first (v. 4–5), but the still small voice came later at the cave on Horeb, also called Sinai — the mountain of God.