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This is an incomplete list of humans and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints.According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision.Many of the saints listed here are to be found in the General Roman Calendar, while others may also be found in the Roman Martyrology; [1] still others are particular to local places and their recognition does not extend to the ...
The following list includes not only saints of the Catholic Church and those officially beatified by the Church , but also those considered venerabili, servants of God or candidates for sainthood, who belonged to the Carmelite order. Coat of arms of the Carmelites on the facade of the Convent of San José in Antequera, Spain
The Martyrology of Tallaght is an Irish martyrology from the late eighth century. It lists of hundreds of saints from Ireland and beyond. [1]In various religions, a saint is a revered person who has achieved an eminent status of holiness, known as sainthood.
According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, the beatific vision is God opening himself in an inexhaustible way to the saints, [25] so that they can see him face to face, [26] and thereby share in his nature, [27] and therefore enjoy eternal, definitive, supreme, perfect, and ever ...
One of the group depictions of the fourteen Saints is a 1503 altarpiece by Matthias Grünewald for the monastery in Lichtenfels in Upper Franconia. The fourteen angels of the lost children's prayer in Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy opera, Hansel and Gretel, symbolize the Fourteen Holy Helpers. [15] The English words are familiar:
Many churches were decorated with images of the saint, e.g. St. George's church in Staraya Ladoga, Russia, was adorned with magnificent frescoes in 1167. From this early period, Saint George was seen both as a symbol of courage for keeping his faith in the face of death and, having been a soldier, as one of the warrior saints who was at times ...
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