CANONIZED

Ask a room of twelve-year-olds what St. Lawrence carried in when Rome demanded the treasure of the Church. One hand goes up, maybe. Ask again after a round of CANONIZED and the whole room knows — and knows what it cost him. CANONIZED is a game about the Catholic faith for Sunday school and the kitchen table. Built for ages 11 to 14, open to anyone older who thinks they can keep up. No lecture, no worksheet. Pick a round, the clock starts, and the saints, the prayers and the story get learned the way anything worth knowing does: by playing it until it sticks. THE ROUNDS • TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE — three claims about a saint, a prophet, a king or a defender of the Church. One is invented. The real ones are usually worse. Thirty-eight figures, from St. Lawrence to St. Carlo Acutis, Moses to St. John the Baptist. • THE VANISHING — the prayer is on screen, then the words start disappearing. Bank your points or push your luck. Twenty-three prayers, from the Sign of the Cross to the Nicene Creed. • THE STORY — creation, the promise, and the door the Cross opened. Walk it from the beginning, then see if the order stuck. • NAME THEM ALL — Ten Commandments. Beatitudes. Gifts and Fruits of the Spirit. The Mysteries of the Rosary. Name every one before the reveal. • WORD SEARCH — drag over the word you find, and it tells you what it actually means. • THE CHURCH YEAR — what season is it? What colour? Which day drags you to Mass? The calendar, as a fight. • HOW TO — how to go to confession, how to receive Communion, the Rosary and the Chaplet, step by step. ALSO IN HERE • THE CALENDAR — the whole liturgical year: seasons, feast days and the holy days of obligation. • THE BIBLE — all 73 books. Every reference in the game taps straight through to the chapter. • YOUR PROGRESS — which figures you have down, which prayers you own, and where to pick up next. ONE PHONE OR A WHOLE CLASS Play solo on a phone, or put it on the projector and split the class into teams. Every round ends with the score, the three you just met, and the one to go back for. WHAT IS FREE, AND WHAT A YEAR OPENS Download it and a real slice is yours with no timer and no card: four figures — including St. Lawrence, which is the best round in here — a prayer you can learn to the empty page, the first beats of the story, the Ten Commandments, how to go to confession, and a word search. A SaintPath Academy account that holds a year opens the other eighty-nine pieces on every device the family signs in on. Parishes and co-ops hand out printed cards instead: one code each, and no child ever gives an email address. BUILT SO A PARENT OR A TEACHER CAN TRUST IT • A grown-up owns the account: an email address and a six-digit code. No password, no social login. • Each child is a first name under that account, never an email of their own. Progress follows the name to any phone, tablet or laptop. • The free part works signed out. Play on one device and nothing leaves it. • No ads. No trackers. Nothing shared between families. Delete the account from inside the app and everything goes with it. • Once it is open it keeps working with no signal, and every part of it prints. • The prayers as the Church prays them and the Scripture as it reads. Nothing watered down. CANONIZED comes out of a real Sunday-school classroom in Rochester, New York, where it gets played every week. Made by SaintPath Academy.