Complete Clue List
Across
1. A virtue; Native American and virgin 26D was known for this
5. Friend of the court: ____ curiae (Lat.)
9. Contracted
11. Hypnotic state
12. Exterior
13. Follower; Doubting St Thomas (July 3) was a ____ of Jesus
15. Admit defeat (4,2)
16. Apostle St James the Great (July 25) was a ____ of Zebedee and Salome (Matt. 4:21 [NIV])
18. Combines
21. Happy ____ lark (2,1)
23. Type widths
24. Contrition; convicted murderer Alessandro (see 28A) confessed his guilt and begged forgiveness
25. Query
28. Violently attack; as Alessandro Serenelli did to St Maria Goretti (July 6), killing the 11-year-old
30. Reclusions for prayer and meditation; 35A is the patron of spiritual ____
31. Called; Saints Anne and Joachim (July 26) ____ their daughter, "Mary": she would be Jesus' mother
32. Stick with (4,2)
33. Careful and persevering in carrying out tasks: a trait of 26D
34. Dwell (in); 31A were known to ____ in Nazareth
35. St ____ of Loyola (July 31) was a Spanish priest and co-founded the Society of Jesus in 1539
Down
1. Montreal's country where 26D spent the last five years of her life in a Jesuit mission village
2. Over; the legendary St Christopher (July 25) helped travellers ____ a dangerous river
3. Absorbed (4,2)
4. Someone who studies the nature of God and religious belief, like 35A
6. Wedlock; 26D's family pressured her by arranging a ____ but she resisted their efforts
7. People changing to another religious belief; St Mary Magdalene (July 22) is a patron of this group
8. Overlooks, as a fault (4,4)
10. Expected
11. A two-year-old sheep, familiar to shepherd St Joachim (see 31A)
14. Thicket
17. Continuing, going forward
19. Entertain
20. Evangelist, speaker; Apostle St Thomas (also see 13A) helped spread the gospel to India
21. Jesus' followers; St Mary Magdalene is known as the apostle to the ____
22. Smeared with oil; St Mary Magdalene ____ Jesus' feet with perfume and her tears (Luke 7:36-38 [NIV])
25. Medicinal plant
26. St ____ Tekakwitha (July 14) was given her Christian name in honour of Catherine of Siena
27. "The way things are..." (2,2,2)
29. Asian language from a country neighbouring Vietnam
30. Embarrassed