Across
- 4. A man who has dedicated his life to living in service of the Church and God's spiritual kingdom
- 5. A woman within the Church who has dedicated to living her life as the "bride of Christ", and is meant to be a living example of the relationship between Jesus and the Church
- 7. The disease which almost killed Justinian, and certainly caused him to suffer from the effects of brain injury
- 11. A Christian community of monks that is intended to be an example of Christian life
- 13. The journey on which Mohammed led his followers from Mecca to Medina
- 15. Has a trunk
- 17. the practice of secretly obtaining information, typically by governments to obtain political and military information
- 19. In, of or by the world (outside of the Church)
- 20. A measure of the intensity and tolerance of a religious group
- 21. Large marsupial
- 25. A loose alliance of city-states or colonies
- 27. Man's best friend
- 28. The period of history, after the fall of Western Rome, which Renaissance scholars argued was blocked from The Light by the Shadow of Rome and the Rise of Islam
- 29. Flying mammal
Down
- 1. The Byzantine Emperor during the Nike revolt
- 2. The sea-faring barbarians from Scandinavia who began attacking and raiding coastal villages of Northern Europe during the 8th Century A.D.
- 3. The political "state" that was intended to be the physical representation of God's spiritual Christian kingdom on earth
- 6. The king of the Franks
- 8. The Pope known as the "founder" of the medieval papacy
- 9. The last Emperor of Western Rome
- 10. Likes to chase mice
- 12. The name given to Charles Martel, by his troops, after the Battle of Tours in 732 A.D.
- 14. The location of the first confirmed attack on a Catholic monastery by Vikings
- 16. The former "dancer" who married Justinian
- 18. The king generally considered to have been the greatest European ruler of the Middle Ages
- 22. The Germanic king who defended the Pope and was the second ruler granted the title of "Emperor" by the Church
- 23. The largest barbarian tribe in the West after the fall of the Western Roman Empire
- 24. a group of volunteer citizen soldiers
- 26. The office of the leader of the Roman Catholic Church
