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Overview What is a saint Hagiography History and Types of Saints Process to Sainthood Whatever happened to What is a saint The meaning of the terms for saint in Hebrew Greek and Latin is holy one ID: 691631

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Slide1

Faith Matters

For All the SaintsSlide2
Slide3

Overview

What is a saint?

Hagiography

History and Types of Saints

Process to Sainthood

Whatever happened to….Slide4

What is a saint?

The meaning of the terms for "saint" in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin is "holy one."

holy, sanctified, or consecrated

Term has been obscured in Modern times

In Scripture the term "saint" is used in the following ways:

to refer (indiscriminately) to Jews

to refer (indiscriminately) to Christians

to refer to notably holy people

to refer to those in heaven

to refer to holy angels

to refer to Jesus

to refer to God Slide5

Saints in the New Testament

From the Greek –

hag-

ee

-

oes

meant sacred, pure or blameless

Title used to refer to the early Christians

While they were still aliveHumanOften disagreed with one anotherHad faults and failings but worked toward building up the Kingdom of God

Saints Peter and PaulSlide6

Misguided HagiographySlide7

Misguided Hagiography

From Saint Francis de Sales

There is no harm to the saints if their faults are shown as well as their virtues...But great harm is done to everybody by the hagiographers who slur over the faults, be it for purposes of honoring the saints...or through fear of diminishing our reverence for their holiness. Slide8

History and Types of Saints

Early Centuries

I Thessalonians makes first reference to “saints” in heaven

Cult of the Martyrs develops during first three centuries

Significance attached to their burial place

St.

Calixtus

Catacombs

in Rome Slide9

History and Types of Saints

By the 4

th

Century

Matrons, Confessors, Virgins,

Monastics

Those whom the community of believers recognized as “Holy”

From 4

th Century onwardThose whose lives were examples of “Heroic virtue”Mostly “religious” but recently more Lay PeopleSlide10

Process to Sainthood

According to Canon Law

At least 5 years to have passed since

death

allow

greater balance and

objectivity

let

the emotions of the moment dissipate.

Begun by local church who introduces the “CAUSE

SERVANT OF GOD

Once a Cause has begun,

in the home diocese, the

individual is called a Servant of God, e.g. the Servant of God Karol

Wojtyła

or the Servant of God Pope John Paul II. Slide11

Home Grown Saint in the making!

Bishop

Michael F. Burbidge signing Edict for the Opening of the Cause for Beatification and Canonization of Father Thomas F. Price.

Born on August 19, 1860, in Wilmington, North Carolina, Father Price was the first native North Carolinian to be ordained to the Priesthood. Slide12

Process to Sainthood

The

Investigation Process

May take many years to gather documents and take depositions

If enough support for the cause is present and documents are in order the

Local

Bishop or Pope declares the person

“Venerable”

(Showing Heroic Virtue

)

Bishop Daniel R.

Jenky

, Diocese of

Peoria signs

his name to the official

documents on the life of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

before they have to be placed in the box for sealing and shipment to Rome as Patricia Gibson, Chancellor looks on.Slide13

Process to Sainthood

Material

passed on to Congregation for the Causes of Saints

A Postulator is Appointed who continues to organize materials

The Miracle – thoroughly investigated – non-Christian doctors often employed

The

postulator argues the case before the

C

ongregation of Saints

The Advocate (Devil’s Advocate) job is to find evidence as to why the person should not be a saintSlide14

The Congregation for the Causes of Saints at a meeting in the Vatican, June 2002, concerning the Canonization of Mother Theresa. Slide15

Process to Sainthood

Beatification

a miracle attributed to the Servant of God, verified after his death

Miracle must be studied

Pope ultimately decides

Person receives title of “Blessed“

Canonization

another miracle is needed, attributed to the intercession of the Blessed and having occurred after his beatification.

Canonization is understood as the concession of public worship in the Universal Church.

Pontifical infallibility is involved. With canonization, the Blessed acquires the title of Saint." Slide16
Slide17

Whatever happened to….

Are they still saints?

Christopher, Ursula and others

Before the formal canonization process began in the fifteenth century, many saints were proclaimed by popular approval.

Many saint so named were based on legends, pagan mythology, or even other religions -- for example, the story of the Buddha traveled west to Europe and he was "converted" into a Catholic saint!

In 1969, the Church took a long look at all the saints on its calendar to see if there was historical evidence that that saint existed and lived a life of holiness.

Christopher was one of the names that was determined to have a basis mostly in legend. Therefore Christopher (and others) were dropped from the universal calendar.

Some saints were considered so legendary that their cult was completely repressed (including St. Ursula). Christopher's cult was not suppressed but it is confined to local calendars (those for a diocese, country, or so forth).Slide18

Some Questions

Exactly how many saints are there?

There are over 10,000 named saints and beati from history, the Roman

Martyology

and Orthodox sources, but no definitive "head count".

Is keeping statues or pictures of saints idolatry?

No

!

Married Saints – Lay SaintsYes… !!!Slide19

Some Questions

Do Catholics pray TO saints?

We pray with saints, not to them.

Since saints led holy lives and are close to God in heaven, we feel that their prayers are particularly effective. Often we ask particular saints to pray for us if we feel they have a particular interest in our problem. For example, many people ask Saint Monica to pray for them if they have trouble with unanswered prayers, because Monica prayed for twenty years for her son to be converted. Finally her prayers were answered in a way she never dreamed of -- her son, Augustine, became a canonized saint and a Doctor of the Church.Slide20
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