“Who is Jesus Christ?”

Mr. Gavin

Individual Presentation

Fall 2008

Each student should pick one of the famous person (or persons) or topics below. Each individual or topic has a date assigned to it. You are required to do a 7-10 minute presentation on the date listed. If your class does not meet on that date, you will give your presentation the following day. This will be done at the beginning of class.

1. If doing a historical figure, give a brief overview of his/her life. Try to leave out incidental or irrelevant information.

2. Provide pictures, maps or relevant illustrations.

3. If you have chosen something or someone related to music, consider providing sound clips.

4. Provide quotations and anecdotal stories.

5. Please provide a handout for the class.

6. Key Point: If you do a historical person, how did/does this person help us understand ‘Who Jesus Christ is’?

7. Power point is the preferred method of presentation. Please email your presentation to Mr. Gavin at gavinw@bishopireton.org Also, bring a copy on a disk or flash drive. Please save your power point as a Power Point 2003 file (not 2007).

8. Please provide bibliographical information at the end of your presentation. You do not have to cite picture references. You have to use at least 3 sources!

1. September 19: Presenter: ___________________________ Saint Francis de Sales (in French, St François de Sales) (21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622) was bishop of Geneva, Switzerland and a Roman Catholic saint. He worked to convert Protestants back to Catholicism, was an accomplished preacher. He is known also for his writings on the topic of spiritual direction and spiritual formation (including Introduction to the Devout Life), and other religious subjects.

2. September 19: Presenter: ___________________________ Saint Robert Southwell (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595) was an English Jesuit priest and poet. He was hanged at Tyburn, and became a Catholic martyr. He was born at Horsham St. Faith in Norfolk, England. Southwell was beatified in 1929 and canonized by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales on 25 October 1970. February 20, 1595, Southwell was sent to Tyburn. Having been dragged through the streets on a sled, he stood in the cart beneath the gibbet and made the sign of the cross with his pinioned hands, before reciting a bible passage from Romans xiv.

3. September 19: Presenter: ___________________________ The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a prominent minor basilica of the Roman Catholic Church in Washington, D.C., dedicated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, the patroness of the United States. It is the largest church in the Western Hemisphere and seventh-largest religious structure in the world [1]. Millions of pilgrims from around the country and the world visit the basilica each year.

4. September 22: Presenter: ___________________________ World Youth Day Gatherings. World Youth Day is a coming together of young people from all over the world and a strong reminder of the strength and confidence the young bring to the Catholic Church today. A calling for the world's youth to come together as one people. The most recent ones were in Cologne (Germany), Toronto, Rome, Paris and Denver.

5. September 23: Presenter: ___________________________ Polyphony Music: polyphony is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony). The term is usually used in reference to music of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Baroque forms such as the fugue which might be called polyphonic are usually described instead as contrapuntal.

6. September 23: Presenter: ___________________________ Josephine Bakhita (1869 — February 8, 1947) is a Roman Catholic saint. Bakhita was born to a locally important family in Olgossa, a village in the southern Sudanese district of Darfur. At the age of six or seven she was kidnapped by Arab slave traders and over the course of the next eight years was sold and resold five times in the markets of El Obeid and Khartoum. On October 1, 2000 she was canonized and became Saint Josephine Bakhita. She is venerated as a modern African saint, and as a saint with a special relevance to slavery and oppression. She has been adopted as the patron saint of the Sudan.

7. September 23: Presenter: ___________________________ St. Paul Kim and the Korean Martyrs were the victims of religious persecution against the Roman Catholic church during the 19th century in Korea. At least 8,000 adherents to the faith were known to have been killed during this persecution, many of whom were canonized en masse in 1984.

8. September 23: Presenter: ___________________________ Dolores Hope was a singer, who is best known as a philanthropist and the widow of the legendary Bob Hope. She was born Dolores DeFina on May 27, 1909 in New York City and raised in The Bronx. She is of Italian and Irish descent. As a singer she was known professionally as Dolores Reade. She married Bob Hope in 1934 and they were married for 69 years until his death at age 100. They had 4 adopted children, one of whom, the eldest, Anthony, pre-deceased his mother.

9. September 24: Presenter: ___________________________ Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581 – September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. His feast was formerly kept on July 19, but is now observed on September 27 - the day of his death. He founded many charitable organizations such as Congregation of the Daughters of Charity, with Louise de Marillac, and the Congregation of Priests of the Mission (Lazarists

).

10. September 24: Presenter: ___________________________ Tony Melendez is a Nicaraguan guitar player, singer and Christian rock songwriter who was born without arms. His mother took Thalidomide while pregnant, which caused his disability. Melendez has learned to play the guitar with his feet. As of 2005, his band, Tony Melendez and the Toe Jam Band, has a busy concert schedule. Melendez gives motivational talks and has written a book. He campaigns actively for the pro-life cause.

11. September 25: Presenter: ___________________________ Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over forty years, she ministered to the needs of the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India.

12. September 25: Presenter: ___________________________ Vietnamese Martyrs also known as the Martyrs of Tonkin, Martyrs of Annam or Martyrs of IndoChina, are saints on the Roman Catholic calendar of saints canonized by Pope John Paul II. Their feast day is 24 November although several of these saints have another memorial day as they were beatified and on the calendar prior to the canonization of the group. It is not known precisely how many Catholics died for their faith between 1516 when the first Portuguese missionaries arrived in what is now Vietnam and the twentieth century (about 130,000 to 300,000 Vietnamese martyrs were killed); however, John Paul II decided to canonize those whose names are known and unknown, giving them a single feast day.

13. September 25: Presenter: ___________________________ Chinese Martyrs is the name given to a number of Christians, specifically Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox, who were killed in China during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The Roman Catholic Church recognizes 120 Catholics who died between 1814 and 1930 as its "Catholic Martyrs". They were canonized as saints by Pope John Paul II on October 1, 2000.

14. September 25: Presenter: ___________________________ Jane Frances de Chantal (January 28, 1572 - December 13, 1641) was born in Dijon, France. The mother of six children (three died shortly after they were born), she was widowed at the age of 28. She met Saint Francis de Sales when he preached at the Sainte Chapelle in Dijon and was inspired to start a Catholic religious order for women, the Congregation of the Visitation.

15. September 25: Presenter: ___________________________ Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 – August 9, 1942) was a German philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934. She was canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (her Carmelite monastic name) by Pope John Paul II in 1998; however, she is still often referred to, and churches named for her as, "Saint Edith Stein".

16. September 26: Presenter: ___________________________ Saint Ignatius of Loyola, also known as Ignacio (Íñigo) López de Loyola (December 24, 1491 – July 31, 1556), was the principal founder and first Superior General of the Society of Jesus, a religious order of the Catholic Church professing direct service to the Pope in terms of mission. Members of the order are called Jesuits.

17. September 26: Presenter: ___________________________ Saint Catherine of Siena, O.P. (March 25, 1347 – April 29, 1380) was a Tertiary of the Dominican Order, and a Scholastic philosopher and theologian. She also worked to bring the Papacy back to Rome from its displacement in France, and to establish peace among the Italian city-states. She is a doctor of the Church (highest honor in the Church).

18. September 29: Presenter: ___________________________ Michael Krzyzewski (in American English transliteration "shuh-shef-skee"; born February 13, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois), often referred to as Coach "K" due to the difficult pronunciation of his surname, is the head coach of the Duke University men's basketball team. The program has been one of the most successful of the 1980s to 2000s. He has been picked to coach the United States national basketball team through the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He is a devout Roman Catholic involved in many charitable causes.

19. September 29: Presenter: ___________________________ Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) are the public art and sculpture museums in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the 16th century. The Sistine Chapel and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. As of November 2006, it was visited by more than 4,000,000 people for the year.

20. September 30: Presenter: ___________________________ Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897CE – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist turned social activist and devout member of the Roman Catholic Church. She became known for her social justice campaigns in defense of the poor, forsaken, hungry and homeless. Alongside Peter Maurin, she founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933, espousing nonviolence, and hospitality for the impoverished and downtrodden. Day initially lived a bohemian lifestyle, with two common law marriages and an abortion she later wrote about in her semi-autobiographical novel, The Eleventh Virgin. With the birth of her daughter, Tamar, she found herself looking for more reverence in her life. This caused her to embrace Catholicism, joining the Church in December 1927 with baptism at Our Lady Help of Christians parish on Staten Island.

21. September 30: Presenter: ___________________________ Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was one of the most influential Catholic authors of the 20th century. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, Merton was an acclaimed Catholic theologian, poet, author and social activist. Merton wrote over 50 books, scores of essays and reviews, and is the ongoing subject of countless biographies.

22. September 30: Presenter: ___________________________ John Michael Talbot (born May 8, 1954) is an American Catholic singer guitarist who is founder of a monastic community, the Brothers and Sisters of Charity. He was born into a Methodist family with a musical background in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He had started learning to play the guitar by the age of 10. At fifteen he dropped out of school and was performing as a guitarist for Mason Proffit, a country folk/rock band formed with Terry, his older brother. The band produced five albums and was one of the forerunners of more successful country rock bands such as the Eagles. As success beckoned, Talbot embarked on a spiritual journey that took him via everything from Native American religion, Buddhism, to Christianity. At this point he and his brother joined the Jesus Movement, recording the album Reborn.

23. September 30: Presenter: ___________________________ Oskar Schindler (April 28, 1908 – October 9, 1974) was a Sudeten German industrialist who saved his Jewish workers from the Holocaust. He saved as many as 1,200 Jews by having them work in his enamelware and munitions factories located in Poland and what is now the Czech Republic. He was the subject of the book Schindler's Ark, and the film based on it, Schindler's List.

24. September 30: Presenter: ___________________________ St. Thomas More (7 February 1478 — 6 July 1535), posthumously known also as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, author, and statesman. During his lifetime he earned a reputation as a leading humanist scholar and occupied many public offices, including that of Lord Chancellor from 1529 to 1532. More coined the word "utopia", a name he gave to an ideal, imaginary island nation whose political system he described in a book published in 1516. He is chiefly remembered for his principled refusal to accept King Henry VIII's claim to be the supreme head of the Church of England, a decision which ended his political career and led to his execution as a traitor.

25. October 1: Presenter: ___________________________ Blessed Charles de Foucauld (1858-1916). Born in Strasbourg, France on September 15, 1858, he grew up in an aristocratic family and entered the Saint-Cyr Military Academy in 1876. He later was a French army officer in Algeria but left the army in 1882 and went as an explorer to Morocco. In 1890 he joined the Trappist order, but left in 1897 to follow an as yet undefined religious vocation. He returned to Algeria and lived a virtually eremetical life. He first settled in Beni Abbey, near the Moroccan border, building a small hermitage for ‘adoration and hospitality’, which soon became the ‘Fraternity’. For Charles wished to be, and was seen to be, a “brother” to each and every visitor, whatever their religion, ethnic origin or social status. Foucald was eventually killed by thieves.

26. October 2: Presenter: ___________________________Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living there. In 1762 held the post of organist at Milan Cathedral, for which he wrote two Masses, a Requiem, a Te Deum, and other works. Around this time he converted from Lutheranism to Catholicism. For twenty years he was the most popular musician in England: dramatic works, produced at the King’s theatre, were received with great cordiality.

27. October 3: Presenter: ___________________________ Medieval illuminated manuscripts is a manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration or illustration, such as decorated initials, borders and miniatures. The majority of surviving manuscripts are from the Middle Ages, although many illuminated manuscripts survive from the 15th century Renaissance, along with a very limited number from late antiquity.

28. October 4: Presenter: ___________________________ Bernard Nathanson is a medical doctor and pro-life activist from New York. As a younger man, he had been strongly pro-choice, and he performed an abortion on a woman he impregnated ^[1]. He later gained national attention by then becoming one of the founding members of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, now known as NARAL Pro-Choice America. He has written the books Aborting America and The Hand of God. Although he grew up Jewish, he became a Catholic in 1996

29. October 4: Presenter: ___________________________ José Gabriel Funes (born January 31, 1963 in Córdoba), an Argentine Jesuit priest and astronomer, is the current director of the Vatican Observatory. He has a doctorate from the University of Padua in Italy. He has also a bachelor's degree in philosophy from University del Salvador in Argentina and a bachelor's degree in theology from Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. A member of the Society of Jesus, he was ordained a priest in 1995. He joined the Vatican Observatory as a researcher in 2000, and was named its director on August 19, 2006.

30. October 6: Presenter: ___________________________ Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543) was the astronomer and priest who provided the first modern formulation of a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory of the solar system in his epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres).