“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. You must provide a handout for the class.
6. Key Point: How did/does this person/thing 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.
8. You must 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.
February 11: 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.
February 11: 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.
February 11: 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.
February 12: 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.
February 12: 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.
February 12: Presenter:
___________________________ St. 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.
February 13: 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.
February 13: 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.
February 17: 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. February 17: 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. February 18: 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. February 18: 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. February 18: 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. February 19: 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. February 19: 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. February 19: 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. February 20: 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. February 20: 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.
February 23: 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.
February 24: 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.
21.
February 24: 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.
February 25: 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.
February 25: 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.
February 26:
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.
February 26: 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.
February 26: 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.
February 27: 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. Focus on Lindisfarne
Gospels.
28. February 27: 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. March 2: 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. A member of the Society of Jesus, he was ordained a priest
in 1995.
30. March 2: 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).
31. March 2: Presenter: ___________________________ Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20[1], 1822 – January 6, 1884) was an Augustinian abbot who is often called the "father
of modern genetics" for his study of the inheritance of traits in pea plants. Mendel showed that the
inheritance of traits follows particular laws, which were later named after him. His
rediscovery prompted the foundation of genetics.
32. March 3: Presenter: ___________________________ Father Georges-Henri Lemaître (July 17, 1894 – June 20, 1966) was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of physics and astronomer.
Fr. or Msgr. Lemaître
proposed what became known as the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe, although he called it his 'hypothesis
of the primeval atom'.
33. March 3: Presenter: ___________________________ Fra Angelico, (c. 1395 - February 18, 1455) was an Early Italian Renaissance painter, referred to in
Vasari's Lives of the Artists as having "a
rare and perfect talent". Angelico is often considered the
patron saint of artists.
34. March 3: Presenter: ___________________________ Frederick Hart (1943 – 1999) was an American sculptor, best known for his
public monuments and works of art in bronze, marble, and clear acrylic (a technique he coined as
"sculpting with light"). Noted
Works: The Three Soldiers sculpture - Located at
the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington,
D.C. Dedicated in 1984.
The Creation - Located at Washington National Cathedral in
Washington, D.C. Dedicated in 1990.
35. March 4: Presenter: ___________________________ J.R.R. Tolkien CBE (3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and university professor who is best known as
the author of The Hobbit
and The Lord of the Rings. He was an Oxford professor of Anglo-Saxon language (1925 to 1945) and English language and literature (1945 to 1959). He was a strongly committed Roman Catholic.
36. March 4: Presenter:
___________________________ Saint Francis of
Assisi (September 26, 1181 – October 3, 1226) was a Roman Catholic friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known
as the Franciscans. He is known as the patron saint of animals, birds, and the
environment.
37. March 4: Presenter: ___________________________ Michelangelo (whose full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
Simoni) is regarded as one of the greatest and most
popular artists in history. He was born in Caprese,
Tuscany, Italy in 1475. He died in 1564.
38. March 5: Presenter: ___________________________ Norma Leah McCorvey (née Nelson born September 22, 1947 in Simmesport, Louisiana) is best known as "Jane Roe" in the landmark Roe v. Wade
lawsuit in which a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling recognized abortion as a Constitutional right,
overturning individual states' laws against abortion. At a signing of her first
book in 1994, McCorvey was confronted by pro-life
activist Flip Benham.
Within a year, McCorvey converted to Christianity in 1995. On August 10 of that year, she announced that
she had become an advocate of the pro-life movement (specifically, "Operation Rescue"), fighting to make abortion illegal. In 1998, she released a statement that
affirmed her entrance into the Roman Catholic Church, and she has been confirmed into the Church as a full member.
39. March 5: Presenter: ___________________________ Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American author. She was born in Savannah, Georgia. An important voice in
American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as
a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer in the vein of William Faulkner, often writing in a Southern Gothic style and relying heavily
on regional settings and -- it is regularly said -- grotesque character. She was a deeply devoted Catholic living in
the mostly Protestant American South.
40. March 6: Presenter: ___________________________ James Patrick Caviezel (born September 26, 1968) is an American film actor. Caviezel
is perhaps best associated with his role as Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of
the Christ (2004), but he has also starred in such mainstream
Hollywood films as Angel Eyes, Pay It Forward and The Count of Monte Cristo (2002). Caviezel is a devout Roman Catholic.
41.
March 6: Presenter:
___________________________ Antonio
Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741),[1] nicknamed il
Prete Rosso ("The
Red Priest"), was a Venetian priest and Baroque music composer, as well as a famous
virtuoso violinist; he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a series of four violin concerti, is his best-known work and a
highly popular Baroque piece.
42.
March 6: Presenter:
___________________________ Vincent
Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was one of the most successful head
coaches in the history of American football. He was the driving
force of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967, leading them in the capture of five NFL championships during his 9 year
tenure. Following a one-year retirement from coaching in 1968, he returned as
head coach of the Washington Redskins for the 1969 season. He owns a 9-1 record in the
post-season. Just a week after his death, the NFL's Super Bowl trophy was renamed the Vince Lombardi Trophy in his honor. He was
enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the summer of
1971.
Lombardi was a devout Catholic.
43.
March 9: Presenter:
___________________________ Michael John Sweeney (born July 22, 1973, Orange, California) is a first baseman/designated hitter in Major League Baseball who has played his
entire career for the Kansas City Royals.
44.
March 9: Presenter: ____________________ Roger Thomas Staubach (born February 5, 1942 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is a businessman, Heisman Trophy winner and former American professional football player where he was the
quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys for most of the 1970s during their reign as America's Team. Recommendation: google “Roger Staubach” and catholic
à also, look for 1971 Sports
Illustrated article on his faith.
45.
March 9: Presenter:
____________________________ Blaise Pascal (June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his
father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important
contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum.
Pascal also wrote powerfully in defense of the scientific method.
46.
March 10: Presenter:
___________________________ Katharine Mary
Drexel (November 26, 1858 – March 3, 1955) is a Roman Catholic Saint. Katharine dedicated her life and
inheritance to the needs of oppressed Native Americans and Blacks in the West
and Southwest US, and was a vocal advocate of racial tolerance. To address
racial injustice and destitution and spread the Gospel to these groups,
Katharine established a religious order, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for
Indians and Colored People. Because Katharine felt a universal need for
education, especially among Blacks and Native Americans, she financed more than
60 missions and schools around the United States. Because of her lifelong
dedication to her faith and her selfless service to the oppressed, Pope John Paul II canonized her on October 1, 2000.
47.
March 10: Presenter: ___________________________ Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (alternatively, German von Bingen or
Latin, Bingensis)
(1098 – September 17, 1179) was a German monastic leader, mystic, author, and composer of music.
48. March 11: Presenter: ___________________________ Saint Don Bosco, born Giovanni Melchiorre
Bosco, and known in English as John Bosco (August 16, 1815 – January 31, 1888), was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and recognized pedagogue, who put into practice the dogma
of his religion, employing teaching methods based on love rather than
punishment. He placed his works under the protection of Francis de Sales; thus his followers
styled themselves the Salesian Society. He is the only Saint with the
title "Father and Teacher of Youth".
49. March 11: Presenter: ___________________________ St. Elizabeth Ann Bayley
Seton (August 28, 1774–January 4, 1821) was baptized and raised an Episcopalian but converted to Roman Catholicism on March 14, 1805. Due to her conversion she lost the
support of her friends and family. Seton and her husband, shipping merchant
(and Protestant) William Magee Seton, were New York
aristocrats.
50. March 11: Presenter: ___________________________ Mary Ann Glendon (born October 7, 1938 Pittsfield, Massachusetts) J.D., LL.M., is the Learned Hand Professor of Law, at Harvard University Law School. She teaches and
writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law and human rights in international law. She is a notable Pro-life feminist.
51. March 12: Presenter:
___________________________ Roger Joseph Boscovich,S.J. Two hundred years ago February 13, 1787 the Croatian Jesuit priest and
mathematician Roger Boscovich,S.J.
died. He developed the first coherent description of atomic theory in his work Theoria Philosophiae Naturalis , which is one of the great attempts to
understand the structure of the universe in a single idea. He held that bodies
could not be composed of continuous matter, but of countless "point-like
structures". In this work he states that the ultimate elements of matter
are indivisible points "atoms", which are centers of force and this force
varies in proportion to distance. What is remarkable is that his works appeared
well over a century before the birth of modern atomic theory.
52. March 12: Presenter:
___________________________ Nicolas Steno, January 10, 1638 - November 25, 1686) who became a Roman Catholic
bishop drew up the first, simple laws of
geological study. He is named the Father of Geology.
53. March 13: Presenter:
___________________________ Maximilian Kolbe (January 8, 1894–August 14, 1941), also known as Maksymilian or Massimiliano Maria Kolbe and "Apostle of Consecration to Mary," born as Rajmund Kolbe, was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a
stranger in the Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz in Poland.
55.
March 16: Presenter:
___________________________ Jean
Vanier, CC, GOQ, Ph.D. (born September 10, 1928) is the founder of L'Arche, an
international organization that creates communities where people with developmental disabilities and those who
assist them share life together. Jean Vanier served in both the (British)
Royal Navy and the Royal Canadian Navy, and in
1950 resigned his commission to pursue studies in France where he received a
Doctorate in Philosophy from "L'Institut
Catholique de Paris" for his thesis on Aristotle.
56. March 16: Presenter:
___________________________ Saint Francis Xavier (7 April 1506 - 2 December 1552) was a Spanish pioneering Roman Catholic Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order). The Roman
Catholic Church considers him to have converted more people to Christianity
than anyone since St. Paul
57. March 16: Presenter:
___________________________ St Thérèse de Lisieux (January 2, 1873 – September 30, 1897), ("Saint Thérèse
of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face"), born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a Roman Catholic nun who was canonized as a saint, and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church. She is also known by
many as "The Little Flower of Jesus." [3]
58.
March 17: Presenter:
_______________________ John Houston Stockton (born March 26, 1962) is a former American professional basketball player who spent his entire
career (1984–2003) as a point guard for the Utah Jazz of the NBA. Stockton is regarded as one of the
best point guards of all time, holding the NBA records for career assists and steals by considerable margins. Stockton is a devout Catholic with a wife and
6 children.
59. March 17:
Presenter: ___________________________ Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song of the Roman Catholic Church. Gregorian chant
developed mainly in the Frankish lands of western and central
Europe during the 9th and 10th centuries, with later additions and redactions.
Although popular legend credits Pope Gregory the Great with inventing
Gregorian chant, scholars believe that it arose from a later Carolingian synthesis of Roman and Gallican chant.
60.
March 17: Presenter:
___________________________ The Cathedral of Chartres ("Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres," French: Cathédrale
Notre-Dame de Chartres), located in Chartres, about 50 miles (80 km) from
Paris, is considered one of the finest
examples in all France of the "Gothic" style of architecture. The cathedral is still the
seat of the Diocese of Chartres, in the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical province of Tours. Focus on:
Christian symbolism (not on all the history).
61. March 18: Presenter:
___________________________ Saint Isaac Jogues (January 10, 1607 – October 18, 1646) was a Jesuit missionary who travelled and worked
among the Native Americans in North America. He gave the original
European name to Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrement, Lake of the Holy Sacrament. He is
regarded as a martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. In 1930 Jogues, St. Jean de Brébeuf
and six other martyred missionaries, all Jesuits
or laymen associated with them, were canonized as "The North American
Martyrs,"
62.
March 19: Presenter:
___________________________ Notre Dame de Paris (French for "Our Lady of Paris",
meaning the church in Paris dedicated to the Virgin Mary), often known simply as Notre Dame in English, is a Gothic cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in
Paris, France, with its main entrance to the
west. A major tourist destination, it is still used as a
Roman Catholic cathedral and is the seat
of the Archbishop of Paris. Notre Dame de Paris
is widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture. Focus:
Christian symbolism (not on all the history).