Across
- 2. The principal church of a diocese, containing the bishop's throne
- 3. a holder of land by feudal tenure on conditions of homage and allegiance
- 4. Brought about renewed communication between the East and the West
- 9. People didn't have a tolerant attitude toward the Christians and made it extremely difficult for them to visit the holy places
- 11. A kind of banishment, a punishment that's handed out by a church when one of its members breaks some important church rule
- 13. A member of any of several orders of friars that originally forbade ownership of property, subsisting mostly on alms
- 15. Roman Catholic Church. a member of a religious order, especially the mendicant orders of Franciscans, Dominicans, Carmelites, and Augustinians
Down
- 1. The appointment of bishops, abbots, and other church officials by feudal lords and vassals
- 5. a member of one of the mendicant religious orders founded by St. Dominic
- 6. Holy Land
- 7. Italian monk; founder of the Franciscan order of friars. He is remembered for his humility and love for all creation and was the first person to exhibit stigmata
- 8. A place where a soul is purified after death
- 10. A village of north-central Italy in the Apennines. In January 1077 the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV did penance at the castle here to obtain a pardon from his excommunication by Pope Gregory VII
- 12. A building or buildings occupied by a community of monks living under religious vows
- 14. These wounds were created between Christians and Muslims to this day