Complete Clue List
Across
1. Residential institution caring for the elderly (4,4)
5. The "Flight into Egypt" helped St Joseph's (Mar. 19) family ____ from Herod (Matt. 2:14-15 [NIV])
9. Declare to be a saint (UK spelling)
11. Contend
12. In 1887, the Drexel sisters asked Pope Leo XIII to ____ (provide workers for) some Native missions
13. Xavier in New Orleans was the first ____ University for African Americans (St Katharine Drexel)
15. Lamentation (arch.)
16. Aspiration
18. Empathise: something saints were good at
21. Author and child-care expert ____ LeShan (1922-2002)
23. Jesus is the ____ of God and St Joseph was his foster-father
24. Worried for the future of male orphans, the Drexel sisters founded "St Francis ____ (trade) School"
25. Miss after marriage
28. Piece of jewellery, often with a picture
30. Catastrophe
31. St Dominic Savio (d. aged 14) lived his short life with Jesus as his role ____ (example)
32. Manages (4,2)
33. Mercy
34. Growing up, St Katharine Drexel's family ____ (helped) the poor and those in need
35. St Patrick was born in Roman Britain (c. 385 CE), possibly in this present-day country
Down
1. Ornate 18th-century style
2. Sacred, holy places
3. Horse-drawn cab
4. A religious messenger; St Patrick (Mar. 17) was a Christian ____ and bishop in 5th-Century Ireland
6. Altruistic: a common trait of saints
7. St Katharine Drexel (Mar. 3), b. Philadelphia, PA, was the second ____ to be declared a saint
8. Dusk, poetically
10. And so on (abbr.)
11. Alpha foetoprotein (abbr.); very large amounts may signal foetal abnormalities
14. Adherent of major religion in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal
17. ADMIRE CALL? St. Louise ____ (2,8; Mar. 15) worked with those in need in 17th Century France (anag.)
19. The Drexel parents took their children on regular ____ (journeys) of the US and Europe
20. St Patrick wrote that he baptised thousands of people in towns and ____ in Ireland
21. St Patrick was an ____ (teacher), using the shamrock to explain the Holy Trinity
22. St Vincent de Paul and 17D worked together to ____ (bring together) the "Daughters of Charity"
25. Heaviest member of the squirrel family
26. Poem piece
27. Communed with God: young Italian St Dominic Savio (Mar. 9) ____ frequently, from a young age
29. Plaything
30. Xmas time (abbr.), nine months after the Feast of the Annunciation (Mar. 25)