Lingua Sacra
MARK MARQUEZ Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Lingua Sacra is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by MARK MARQUEZ. Rated 4.9/5 from 36 ratings. Requires iOS 15.1. Updated October 7, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.9
- 36 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 115 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 7
- 2026 · v2.5.0
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About Lingua Sacra
Master the sacred language of the Catholic Church. Lingua Sacra combines gamified Latin learning with authentic liturgical content — prayers, Mass responses, Vulgate Scripture, Gregorian chant, the Liturgy of the Hours, and now Patristic, Scholastic, and Manuscript Latin. Lingua Sacra is a ministry owned and operated by St. Patrick Priory, Inc. FEATURES: • 202 structured lessons across 18 tiers, from beginner greetings to reading actual medieval codices • 2,137 vocabulary words with pre-recorded ecclesiastical Latin pronunciation • Tier 15 Liturgical Mastery: verse-by-verse drill of Te Deum, Pange Lingua, Tantum Ergo, Adoro Te Devote, Stabat Mater, Dies Irae, Magnificat, Benedictus, and the great sequences • Tier 16 Patristic Latin: Augustine, Jerome, Ambrose, Leo the Great, Gregory the Great, Benedict’s Rule, Bede • Tier 17 Scholastic & Magisterial: Aquinas’s Five Ways, Trent, Vatican I and II, Rerum Novarum, Humanae Vitae, Fides et Ratio • Tier 18 Codex & Manuscript: paleography, nomina sacra, scribal abbreviations, reading medieval folios • 52 classic prayers and devotional texts with word-by-word grammar (Ave Maria, Pater Noster, Salve Regina, and more) • Mass Companion for both Ordinary Form and Traditional Latin Mass (1962 Missale Romanum) • Office of the Day: opens to the canonical Hour matching time of day, with seasonal Marian antiphon • Saint of the Day from the Roman Calendar with Latin name, brief life, and citation • Curated Learning Paths: Path of the Priest, Path of the Scholar, Path of the Religious • Vulgate Bible reader with verse-by-verse Latin and English • Spaced repetition vocabulary review powered by FSRS • 168 graded Latin reading passages from simple stories to advanced theological narratives • Interactive paradigm tables for all 5 declensions and 4 conjugations • Liturgy of the Hours, Stations of the Cross, Rosary, and Sacramental Rites • Core lessons, prayer text, quizzes, progress, and review audio work offline; expanded audio and the full Vulgate download when you are online Whether you’re preparing for seminary, following the Traditional Latin Mass, homeschooling, reading the Fathers, or simply want to understand the prayers of the Church, Lingua Sacra makes Latin accessible and beautiful. Designed with the aesthetic of an illuminated manuscript — cathedral navy backgrounds, gold accents, and the elegant EB Garamond typeface. SUBSCRIPTION & TERMS Full access is available as an auto-renewing yearly subscription or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A yearly subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. The lifetime purchase is one-time and does not renew. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://applinguasacra.com/privacy
Ratings & reviews
4.9
36 ratings
What’s new
Version 2.5.0 · Updated October 7, 2026
Version 2.5.0 • Clearer guidance on the free path: lesson cards, the daily plan and the end of each lesson show where your free lessons lead and what comes next. • Faster startup. • Back up your progress to a file, and restore it from a file, on iPhone, iPad and Android. • Review history on your device is kept for up to 12 months, and the app offers you a backup before older months are removed. • Your choices about usage analytics and crash reports now stay on each device, and analytics data is no longer connected to your account. • Many fixes: progress, badges and the weekly summary count your study correctly, lesson-complete screens close cleanly, and your display name updates everywhere. • Office of the Day and Saint of the Day have been retired; Liturgy of the Hours and Saints Quotes remain. • Priestly Formation has been retired; its vocabulary remains available in word lookup and review. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
App privacy
The developer, MARK MARQUEZ, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- User Content: Other User Content
- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Other Usage Data
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Contact Info: Email Address, Name
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: App Functionality
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