Dear readers, As Lent continues, you can do some additional penance by taking this issue's quiz.

1. Picture

One hundred and fifty years ago on Feb. 11, the Virgin Mary first appeared in Lourdes, France, to this young woman pictured above. What is her name?

a) Lucia dos Santos

b) Bernadette Soubirous

c) Mariette Beco

d) Ida Peerdeman

2. Sacraments

One of the three holy oils used in the administration of sacraments and blessed by the bishop during Lent is called chrism. Chrism is made up of what?

a) olive oil and balsam

b) olive oil and myrrh

c) olive oil and salt

d) olive oil and popeye

3. Current Events

Feb. 11 this year marked the 150th anniversary of the first Marian apparitions at Lourdes, as well as, what annual celebration?

a) Blessing of Farm Animals

b) AIDS Awareness Day

c) Feast Day of St. Peter

d) World Day of the Sick

4. Church Trivia

What is the name of the cord that fastens an alb?

a) amice

b) chasuble

c) cincture

d) rope

5. Lenten Question

In some parts of Michigan, there’s an alternative to eating fish on Fridays in Lent going back to the early 1800s, when an exemption was given to French-Canadian trappers to eat what animal because it lives in water?

a) beaver

b) turtle

c) otter

d) muskrat

6. Church in Hawaii

The late Bishop Joseph A. Ferrario used the acronym “O.U.R. church” in describing his ministry. What did O.U.R. stand for?

a) oversight, understanding and respect

b) outreach, unity and renewal

c) our unity restored

d) opportunity for unification and revitalization

7. Sin & Virtue

Who defined sin as “a word, deed or desire in opposition to the eternal law?”

a) Pope Calixtus III

b) St. Paul

c) St. Augustine

d) St. Elizabeth of Hungary

8. Religious Orders

What is the largest religious institute of men in the world?

a) Jesuits

b) Franciscans

c) Salesians

d) Dominicans

9. Saints

A saint with a very fishy name, this second century bishop of Smyrna (today’s Izmir, Turkey) was a disciple of St. John the Apostle, friend of St. Ignatius of Antioch, and Christian martyr. (Feast day: Feb. 23)

a) St. Tilapia

b) St. Sebastian

c) St. Polycarp

d) St. Oceanus

10. Hawaii’s Beatified

How old was Blessed Mother Marianne Cope when she died on Molokai on Aug. 9, 1918?

a) 80

b) 72

c) 94

d) 68

11. Popes

The pope pictured above was the most recent pontiff to be canonized (in 1954). The last pope to become a saint before him was Pius V, who lived in the 16th century. Hint: a Hawaii church is named after him.

a) Celestine V

b) Pius X

c) Leo II

d) Pius IX