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Ch.3 Vocab
Vocab Questions | Answer |
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Persecute | to cause a person to suffer of his or her beliefs |
Monastery | a place where monks live together and hospitality to refugees and travelers |
Monk | someone who commits there life to play and serve in the monastery |
Clergy | a system in which all members of the group has a rank |
Excommunicate | to be exiled from church |
Sacrament | sacred rites that Christians believed brought them grace, or the blessing of god |
Pilgrimage | a journey that the pilgrims used to help go on to visit holy sites such as Jerusalem and Rome |
Relic | an object that was considered "holy", that was toughed or used by a saint, or a holy person |
Convent | a community of nuns |
Nun | a women who has taken a sacred vow to devote her life to prayer and service to the church |
Rhetoric | the study of persuasive writing and speaking |
Theology | the study of god and religious truth |
Natural Law | the concept that there is a universal order built into nature that can guide moral thinking |
Monasticism | a way of life in which men and women withdraw from the rest of the world in order to devote themselves to their faith |
Religious Order | a brotherhood or sisterhood of monks, nuns, or frairs |
Frair | a member of a certain religious order devoted to teaching and works of charity |