Knowing the Saints of the Catholic Church
Saints are defined as individuals with exceptional holiness which is based on how they lived their lives on earth and their significant contributions to the faith of the people which is a vital essence to different religions and cultures around the world. In Roman Catholics alone, there are over 10,000 canonized catholic saints. The Roman Catholic Church educates its members that canonization of saints do not necessarily mean that the Church makes ordinary people, who lived a holy life, a saint but, in fact, it only recognizes and honors the contributions made by that individual.
A saint can be elected as a patron saint of particular cause or vocations, or called upon to prevent specific illnesses and calamities that may happen in one's life. They are sometimes made patron saints due to their popularity among certain Catholic traditions or the recognition of the Catholic Church itself. It is not suggested however that these saints have power of their own unlike the saints who are mentioned in the Holy Scriptures but instead they act as a channel in which to deliver the appeal or prayers directly to God. Once a person is confirmed and canonized as saint, the body of the saint is right away considered as holy and their remains are called holy relics much like the iconic holy objects found in archeological sites.
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