Reflecting on Your Pilgrimage

1. What are the Beatitudes? Where are they found in the New Testament?


2. How did the following people reflect the spirit of the Beatitudes?

  • Mother Teresa
  • Takashi Nagai
  • Jean Donovan
  • Martin Luther King
  • Archbishop Oscar Romero
  • Catherine de Hueck Doherty
  • Dorothy Day
  • Monsignor Clement Kern

3. List two corporal and two spiritual works of mercy

4. The Beatitudes are often called the “blueprint” of Christian living. Why do you think that is so?

5. How many steps are there for one to become a saint? ___ Please name them.

6. What most impressed you about the life of Father Solanus Casey? During his life as a Capuchin Franciscan priest, what duty did he often perform in the monastery?

7. Please name the Spiritual Works of Mercy?

8. Please name the Corporal Works of Mercy?

9. How did the following people reflect the spirit of the Spiritual and Corporal works of mercy?

  • St. Francis of Assisi
  • St. Clare of Assisi
  • St. Martin De Porres
  • St. Katharine Drexel
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe
  • St. Therese of Lisieux
  • St. Joseph the Worker
  • St. Elizabeth of Hungary

10. Who was Saint Bonaventure? Why is he often depicted, in art form, with a red hat?


11. What is the Franciscan Coat of Arms? How is it depicted?


12. Why is it significant to Franciscans?

13. The Cross marks us as a Christian. Research the significance of the following crosses and be able to identify them.

  • St. Bridget’s Cross
  • The TAU Cross
  • The Latin Cross
  • The Maltese Cross
  • The Jerusalem Cross

14. Father Solanus Casey was a Capuchin Franciscan Friar and priest. At the time of his death, he lived and ministered at St. Bonaventure Monastery, Detroit, MI. What is a Capuchin Franciscan Friar? Are there other types of Franciscans?

15. What is Pewabic tile?