When the Saints Go Marching In Quiz

Answer: Catherine of Alexandria

Thérèse of Lisieux is mostly represented with roses and a crucifix. She became a nun at age 15, and died at age 24.
Cecilia is represented with musical instruments and is the patron saint of music.
Catherine of Alexandria is commemorated on the 25th of November. The wheel refers to the way in which she was tortured.
There is also Catharine of Siena, one of the two patron saints of Italy, a "Doctor of the Church", but not linked with philosophy.
Another Doctor of the Church was Teresa of Avila, also called "the Great". She lived from 1515 till 1582 and is the Patron Saint of Spain.

Answer: Sebastian

Laurentius (3rd century; born at Huesca, Spain) is usually represented with a gridiron because that was the tool with which he was tortured to death in Rome where he was archdeacon. Cynically enough they made him the patron saint of cooks.
Cosmas and Damian were two saintly doctors. They are usually represented with doctor's tools.
Sebastian's martyrdom was often a pretext for painters to be allowed to paint the nude male body.

Answer: Anthony the Hermit

Rochus is usually depicted as the beggar-like leprous saint with an ugly wound in one of his legs. He is accompanied by a dog that brings him a chunk of bread.
Anthony the Hermit should not be confused with Anthony of Padua.
Anthony the Hermit was born in Egypt (251 AD) and died at the age of 105 years. He is called "the father of monks". The piglet who he is associated with stands for the temptations he suffered from. Strangely enough this strict vegetarian became the patron saint of sausage-makers - because of the piglet.
Crispin is the patron saint of cobblers. Henry V thanked him for the victory of the English at Agincourt because it happened on 25th of October, which is Crispin's day.
Hubert is the saint with the Deer, who was stopped by God himself during a hunting-party. Paradoxically enough he is quite popular among
hunters though the Lord ordered him to give up his hunter's life and to
start behaving in a responsible way.
As to ex-fox-hunters, there don't seem to be any of them on the saints' calendar yet.

Answer: Thomas à Becket

Thomas a Kempis was never declared a saint, especially as very little is known about him. He is supposed to have been the author of the "Imitatio Christi".
Thomas of Aquino is the famous Dominican whose philosophical ideas survived as "thomism".

Answer: Brendan

Patrick is usually represented as a wild-bearded bishop, crozier in hand and snakes at his feet. He is, together with soccer-coach Jackie Charlton, one of the very few Englishmen who is universally popular among Irishmen.
Brendan travelled west, saw strange things and may have travelled as far as ...America? Swift may have been inspired by him for his "Gulliver's Travels".

Answer: John Nepomucen

Bartholomew is represented with a skinning-knife because skinning was what happened to him. One of the oldest churches in London is dedicated to him and there is also the famous hospital that was originally linked to that church.
Denis is a 3rd century bishop of Paris who was put to death by the Romans. He made a bit of a spectacle of himself by walking a long way from the place of decapitation to Montmartre where he decided to finally breathe his last. He got his shrine at Saint-Denis near Paris where a famous church was built for him, now the repository of the mortal remains of most of the French Kings. Though he was born an Italian, the French adopted him as their national patron saint.
Blasius is represented with a spiked comb. That comb was used by his executioners to brutally tear the flesh off his body.
Nepomucen( 1780-1851)is reputed to have been thrown into the Moldava for refusing to reveal to the King what the Queen had told him in the sacrament of confession.
Throwing people out of windows and into rivers was a popular practice in what is now Czechia.

Answer: Benedict

Abelardus was not exactly declared a saint, and it was not his holy life for which he was brutally tortured.
Bernard was one of his main opponents. He is usually represented with a white dog lying at his feet.
Because of his association with the baptism of the King of the Franks, Clovis, Remigius is usually represented with a flagon of ointment.
He was born at Laon in 437 and died at Reims in 553.

Answer: Stephen

Stephen was stoned to death. Paul, at that time still "Saul of Tarsus", is rumoured to have given some help to the executioners. Nicholas is the saintly bishop who is often represented with a tub holding three children. This representation is based on a legend about him and three students he had to save from trouble. As most of the representations showed a rather reduced mini-version of the students in the tub, medieval churchgoers thought the story was about a bishop and some young kids. All this gave rise to the Saint Nicholas, and later Santa Claus traditions.
Martin (born in Hungary 316-died in the area of Tours 397) is of course the chap who is traditionally represented as cutting his cloak in two with his sword, and sharing the cloak with a beggar.
According to a Greek legend from sixth century, Christopher, a good-hearted giant, tried to carry a child across a river. The child became heavier and heavier, until he realized it was the Child Jesus he was carrying. This gave him such a fright that he changed into a man of great devotion.

Answer: Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc is usually represented in military outfit with banner, lance and sword, the "fleur de lis" being the decorative motif of her armour-suit. Jean-Marie le Pen tried to more or less annex her as a symbol for his extreme right political views.
Saint Louis (Louis IX, 1214-1270) was a kind of French model king, who died when on Crusade, during a stop-over in what is now Tunisia.
Saint Aubert, is a saint without "political potential". He is just the patron saint of bakers, and is represented with baker's tools, including an oven-shovel.
St Genevieve (422-500) is the patron saint of Paris. She was born at Nanterre and was buried at Mont-les-Paris. During the French Revolution the Church of St Genevieve was taken over by the government. They changed it into the "Pantheon".

Answer: True

Indeed St. Lidwina of Schiedam (near Rotterdam) is traditionally represented in that way.
Yet, among average Dutch people, Schiedam is not linked with saints but with Dutch gin.
St Lidwina(1380-1433) suffered from a debilitating disease, similar to MS.The disease began soon after a fall while skating at the age of 16.