Catholic Throwdown
June 24, 2011, 5:38 pm
Posted by David Gibson
Colbert and Jack White go mano a mano, and hilarity, and an odd sort of catechesis, ensues:
Check their answers, make yourself feel good. “Censure”? Censer? Thurible?
I haven’t heard “This Is My Body” – if that’s what the song is called – in ages. St. Stephen martyred in Jerusalem, not Antioch.
A couple of mistakes–location of the martyrdom of Stephen (Yah! Teresa!) and Mary’s mother but over all hilarious.
Man, I knew most of this stuff b/c of the Catholic girls in my neighborhood used to play teacher nun and make me learn it.
All that came in handy later on.
In fact, I’m the go-to guy when it comes to finding patron saints. The neighborhood girls always used to encourage knowledge of the more obscure saints b/c they weren’t as busy and could get to your intentions quicker.
Saint Anne was Mary’s mother. Who was Saint Anne’s husband and Mary’s father?
Only the Gospels of Matthew and Luke have accounts of the birth of Jesus. In which of these two Gospels is Saint Anne referred to?
Anne’s husband/Mary’s father=St. Joachim.
David, see the Protoevangelium of James for the earliest surviving story of Joachim and Anne.
Mary, not Jesus or Anne was conceived without original sin, so Colbert was correct. Colbert had it all over him!
Abe,
It was a trick question! Saint Anne is not mentioned in the Bible.
I know; but maybe people want to know where she can be found?