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| | The Canonization of Saints |
 | | Canonization is understood as the concession of public worship in the Universal Church. | | | Contrary to the belief of some, the Church does not "create" saints, but simply applies the standard of gospel holiness to those God permits the Church to know are in heaven with Him. | | | The Roman Catholic Church since the 10th century has officially applied the standard of holiness of life to certain individuals who lived exemplary Christian lives and through a lengthy process of prayer and study have declared that the individual is in heaven. |
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http://www.catholicapologetics.org/ap070400.htm
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| | Canonization |
| | The earliest acknowledged instance of a solemn decree of canonization is that of Udalric or Ulric, bishop of Augsburg, declared a saint by Pope John XV in 993. | | | Canonization, in the Roman Catholic church, an act by which the pope publicly proclaims the sanctity of a deceased person, whom he thereupon proposes for the veneration of the universal church. | | | The decree of beatification is an official declaration that a person lived a holy life and can be venerated as one of the "blessed"; canonization awards the full title of "saint." In the Orthodox church, the process of canonization is less formal and is carried out by local synods of bishops. |
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http://treasuresofgrace.com/catholic/can.htm
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| | Historical Sketch of Canonization |
| | Canonization and the veneration of saints are as old as the Church. | | | Canonization derives its origin from revealed Catholic doctrine on the invocation of saints and the honor due to them; and the custom of paying religious honor to holy men and seeking their intercession is plainly asserted in the Old Testament. | | | In the canonization of saints, as in many other matters of discipline, a process of centralization took place, and more serious and solemn issues were referred to the Holy See, the central authority in the Church. |
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| | Canonization |
| | However, both beatification and canonization are judgments (the latter infallible) by the church that the person now reigns in glory, is worthy of veneration and imitation, and is able to intercede for the faithful. | | | Saints alone become patrons of churches and are portrayed with the nimbus (gloriole). | | | Canonization is a legal process in the Roman Catholic Church whereby a departed "servant of God," already beatified, is declared a saint. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/canoniz.htm
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| | CANONIZATION - LoveToKnow Article on CANONIZATION |
| | The 12th and, especially, the I3th centuries furnish many examples of canonizations pronounced by the popes, and the procedure of this period is well ascertained. | | | The evidence of those who had known the holy personages was collected on the spot. | | | to affirm that the bishops could not institute the cultus of a new saint without the authority of the Roman Church (Cap. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CA/CANONIZATION.htm
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| | The Glorification of Saints |
| | The glorification of the saints consisted and consists of a general statement of faith by the Church that God Himself has united the departed one to the assembly of His saints. | | | Other saints of God become famous and renowned throughout the Church even during their earthly activity; they are her glory and show themselves to be pillars of the Church. | | | The Church calls both "saints." In the Russian Church, as among the Orthodox Churches of the East, local saints in many instances pass on to the category of saints of the universal Church. |
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http://www.fatheralexander.org/booklets/english/glorification_saints.htm
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| | Canonization December 1997 Seraph Vol XVIII No 4 |
| | And, as some of those who are canonized were sinners before they were saints, being glorious examples of repentance, the Sacred Congregation diligently inquires into the sins which sometimes occur, and the subsequent repentance by which they atoned for their past transgressions. | | | It is obvious to anyone acquainted with Christian teaching that the principles governing these examinations are not a mere arbitrary collection of rules devised by the Church, but that they are founded on the revelation made by God and preserved in Sacred Scripture and Tradition. | | | No writer, ancient or modern, can criticize the actions of the saints with greater severity than the Promoter of the Faith, and many an objection made by critics in the world is nothing more than a repetition of those which have been already urged with the greatest shrewdness and persistency before the Congregation. |
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| | Mgr. P. E. Hallett |
| | Canonization, on the contrary, decrees the public cultus of the Universal Church to the saints. | | | Thus does the Canon of the Mass, with its mention of the name of the Pope, the bishop, the faithful throughout the world, the living, the souls in Purgatory, and the saints, recall the old diptychs. | | | But yet the first formal decree of canonization seems to be that of St. Ulrich, Bishop of Augsburg, which Pope John XV issued in a synod at the Lateran of the year 993. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/CANONIZE.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Beatification and Canonization |
| | The true origin of canonization and beatification must be sought in the Catholic doctrine of the worship (cultus), invocation, and intercession of the saints. | | | The worship of latria (latreia), or strict adoration, is given to God alone; the worship of dulia (douleia), or honour and humble reverence, is paid the saints; the worship of hyperdulia (hyperdouleia), a higher form of dulia, belongs, on account of her greater excellence, to the Blessed Virgin Mary. | | | In the earlier ages, therefore, this worship of the saints was entirely local and passed from one church to another with the permission of their bishops. |
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| | Father Vladimir Demshuk - Saintliness |
| | One of the marks of the Orthodox Church in Russia is that of venerating the sacred saints and martyrs. | | | Everyday in the life of holy Church is dedicated to one or more saints of the Russian church. | | | These Russian saints are the men and women who have testified with their lives by their words by giving Christ first place in their hearts. |
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| | Catherine Doherty - Cause for Canonization - Why Saints? |
| | The pope evangelizes with the saints and the blessed, i.e., with the Christians who have lived the faith and the Gospel in an heroic and radical way. | | | She calls this recognition "canonization." By feasts and devotions, she raises such people before the eyes of the faithful for their admiration, edification and example. | | | The purpose of writing about the saints, or raising them up for veneration in the process of canonization, is precisely to build this living temple to God's glory. |
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http://www.catherinedoherty.org/cause/saints.html
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| | Patricia's World Of Catholic Saints And Holy Witnesses |
| | By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God's grace, the Church recognizes the power of the Spirit of holiness within her and sustaining the hope of believers by proposing the saints to them as models and intercessors. | | | Another angel came and stood at the altar with a gold censor; and he was given much incense to mingle with the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar before the throne; and the smoke of the incense rose with the prayers of the saints from the hand of the angel before God. | | | The witnesses who have preceded us into the kingdom, especially those whom the Church recognises as saints, share in the living tradition of prayer by the example of the lives, the transmission of their writing, and their prayer today. |
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| | Lives of the Saints |
| | Through the work of the Holy Trinity all Christians could be called saints; especially in the early Church as long as they were baptized in the name of the Holy Trinity, they received the Seal of the Spirit in chrismation and frequently participated in the Eucharist. | | | These gatherings took place either around the tomb of the saint or in the church, which kept and preserved his holy relics, or in churches with great historical and theological significance. | | | Man becomes holy and "sainted" by participation in the holiness of God. |
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http://www.goarch.org/en/resources/saints
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| | The Internet Padre - Catholic Web Resources |
| | The Holiness Of Saint Joan Of Arc - In this pamphlet, Etienne Robo recounts the life of St. Joan of Arc. | | | Saint Thérèse of Lisieux - A short biography on the Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Virgin, Doctor of the Church and patroness of foreign missions, France, aviators, and florists. | | | Short Biography of St. Therese of Lisieux - A short biography on the Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Virgin, Religious and Doctor of the Church. |
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http://www.internetpadre.com/new/subcategory.asp?CategoryID=45
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| | PDS Russia Religion News May 1999 |
| | Canonization of saints in the Russian Orthodox church (as, incidentally, among Catholics) is a lengthy process. | | | The master was joined in celebration by members of the diocesan council Archpriest Vladimir Pommer, rector of the church of All Saints of Ekaterinburg, Archpriest Nikolai Ladiuk, rector of the Transfiguration church of Ekaterinburg, and also the rector of the church of Cyril and Methodius of Ekaterinburg, Fr Petr Mangilev and clergy of the cathedral. | | | At that one three bishops were canonized who perished in the years of persecution against the church, metropolitans Petr Poliansky and Serafim Chichagov and Archbishop Faddei Uspensky. |
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| | Catholic Pages Directory: » SAINTS |
| | The Communion of Saints Catechism of the Catholic Church | | | Although in the early Church there was no formal process for declaring a person to be a Saint, for many Centuries now the Church has had a formal process by which she investigates the lives of those who died "in the odour of saanctity" and decides whether they should be first beatified and then canonized. | | | The forty Martyrs are among the best known of the many Catholics who gave their lives in England and Wales during the 16th and 17th centuries owing to the fact that their religious convictions clashed with the laws of the State at that time. |
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| | Immaculate Conception Questions & Answers Page |
| | Since very early in Church history, there were some saints regarded as protectors and intercessors for persons, churches and dioceses and for the Church universal. | | | The Church believes that all of those who have died and gone to heaven are saints. | | | Paul, a "saint" is a follower of Christ (Col 1:2). |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Saints' Lives |
| | Orthodox Church in America: Feasts and Saints of the Orthdox Church. | | | His account of saints and sainthood reflects the rationalist view, a view which was unable to see the value of either the texts, or the religious culture that produced them. | | | From the sixth to the tenth century the definitive pronouncement of approval on the part of the local bishop gradually became a necessary culmination of a process of inquiry into the validity of such a veneration, the cult of doulia on the part of the faithful. |
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| | They've Got What it Takes: Canonized Pagans & Other Legends |
| | he existence of a multitude of saints provided a source of financial prosperity for the church given the mandatory system of pilgramages and other donations in the name of a given saint-deity. | | | Geoge's feast day is also known to ancient Romans as the "Feast of Pales," a raucous fertility festival. | | | "Christian corruption of the title Bodhisat; an inadvertent canonization of siddhartha Buddha." |
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| | The Holy Synod's article |
| | The liturgical and hagiographic literature of the Orthodox Church applied the term "passionbearer" to those Russian saints who in the strict sense were not martyrs for Christ, but who ended their lives at the hands of persecutors and killers. | | | From the Church's point of view the fact of Emperor Nicholas II's abdication cannot be considered as a violation of the teachings of faith or of canons inasmuch as there are no Conciliar decrees accepted by the Orthodox Church which would define the possibility of abdication from the Throne by an anointed Orthodox monarch. | | | The Russian Orthodox Church Holy Synod's Commission on the Canonization of Saints. |
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| | Canonization |
| | In Eastern Orthodoxy, canonization continues to be practiced much as it was during the first millennium of Christianity: people are recognized as saints primarily because they are seen to have preserved the image of God in themselves, and in that sense are living icons. | | | It also describes the Eastern Orthodox practice of adding the names of saints to the liturgical calendar and to their prayers. | | | The Canonization of Saints is the process used by the Roman Catholic Church of recognizing those persons who have lived exemplary lives suitable of identifying them as Christian Saints. |
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| | The Communion of Saints |
| | Saints, living or dead, are indistinguishable before God. | | | Paul's letters clarify how the Apostolic Church under the influence of the Holy Spirit spoke of believers as "saints," whether living or dead. | | | Unless otherwise noted, all Scripture texts are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament, © 1986, Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. |
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| | The Vatican Bank |
| | Pope John Paul II has resolved on an ambitious saint-making program to rally the faithful everywhere and harvest new converts to the Roman Catholic church. | | | The first pope to decree the official canonization of a saint for the universal church (St. Ulrich) was pope John XV in 993. | | | BASIC R.C. A statement by the pope, generally, but not positively, thought to be infallible, that a martyr or one who has died as an exemplary Christian is now in Heaven and is worthy of honor and imitation by the faithful. |
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| | Patron Saints Index |
| | For example, if you want to know about the patron saint for Theologians, click on S -- V. Generic Prayer to One's Patron or Any Saint | | | Glorious Saint (name of your saint), my beloved patron, you served God in humility and confidence on earth. | | | This Index is organized alphabetically according to the intention/circumstance in the left column. |
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| | 4F. Canonization and the papacy. |
| | The fullest study of the development of the means of canonization of saints in the Western Church remains Eric Kemp, Canonization and Authority in the Western Church (Oxford, 1948). | | | Vauchez' work is intended to be an introduction to his major subject, the use of the documents produced by the canonization process for the study of the ideals of sanctity and the practice of holiness in the later middle ages. | | | More particularly on the canonisation of saints from Scandinavia, which played an important role in the development of papal canonization, see S. |
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| | Catholic Online Forum Discussion Area: Angels & Saints |
| | Can a saved human Spirit in the Kingdim of God fall again as the prideful angels? | | | -who is the patron saint of X, -what St. Ugthred did (or any other saint for that matter) | | | There is a specific section for those questions and you will get a better and faster answer by posting it there anyway. |
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http://oldforum.catholic.org/discussion/messages/41/16393.html?988139452
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| | China denounces Vatican's Canonization |
| | China's State Administration of Religious Affairs Spokesman on Vatican's "Canonization of Saints"(02/10/2000) | | | Chinese Foreign Ministry Sunday issued a statement to express its "utmost indignation" and "strong protest" against a "canonization" ceremony held by the Vatican. | | | Foreign Ministry Spokesman:Vatican's canonisation plans distorting and tampering with history |
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