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THE SAINTS PORTAL

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Isidore of Seville, patron saint of the Internet (not official).

A saint (from the Latin sanctus) in Christianity is a human being who has answered the call to holiness. The term is used differently by various denominations. In high-church contexts, such as Roman Catholicism or Anglo-Catholicism, a Saint is generally one to whom has been attributed (and who has generally demonstrated) a high level of holiness and sanctity. In this use, a saint is therefore not simply a believer, but one who has been unusually transformed. On the other hand, many denominations, notably in Protestantism, emphasise the traditional New Testament meaning of the word, preferring to write saint (lower case) to refer to any believer, in continuity with the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Several denominations venerate the dead saints, while others vehemently reject this. Some make a distinction between a "Romish" and a "Patristic" doctrine concerning the invocation of saints, permitting the latter.

The use of the term saint is not exclusive to Christianity. In most religious cultures, there are people who have been recognised within that culture as having fulfilled the highest aspirations of religious teaching. In English, the term saint is often used to translate this idea from many world religions.

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Credit: Leonard da Vinci

The Madonna and Child is one of the central icons of Christianity. The formula "Mother of God" (Theotokos) was adopted officially by the Christian Church at the Council of Ephesus, 431.

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...that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed?
...that the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”?
...that the Martyrologium Hieronymianum, though not written by Saint Jerome himself, was the most widely-used martyrology during the Middle Ages?

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Selected saint days

1 November All Saints' Day
2 November All Souls' Day
3 November Richard Hooker
3 November St Martin of Porres
6 November St Leonard
6 November William Temple
7 November St Willibrord of York
9 November Margery Kempe
10 November St Leo the Great
11 November Martin
14 November Samuel Seabury
16 November Saint Margaret of Scotland
16 November Edmund Rich
17 November Hugh of Lincoln
18 November Elisabeth of Hungary
19 November Hilda of Whitby
20 November Priscilla Lydia Sellon
22 November St Cecilia
23 November St Clement
25 November Catherine of Alexandria
30 November Saint Andrew

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Selected biography

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia November 15 [O.S. November 3] 1895 – July 17, 1918) was the eldest daughter of the last autocratic ruler of the Russian Empire, Emperor Nicholas II, and of Empress Alexandra of Russia. During her lifetime, Olga's future marriage was the subject of great speculation within Russia. Matches were rumored with Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Crown Prince Carol of Romania, Edward, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Britain's George V, and with Crown Prince Alexander of Serbia. Olga herself wanted to marry a Russian and remain in her home country. During World War I, Olga nursed wounded soldiers in a military hospital until her own nerves gave out and, thereafter, oversaw administrative duties at the hospital. Olga's murder following the Russian Revolution of 1917 resulted in her canonization as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church. Historians believe that Olga was assassinated along with her family at Ekaterinburg. Her remains were identified through DNA testing and were buried during a funeral ceremony in 1998 at Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg along with those of her parents and two of her sisters.

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The Saints Wikiproject aims primarily at standardizing the articles about people venerated by some Christians as saints or the blessed and ensuring quality articles. If there is an interest in including saints from religions other than Christianity, please propose those changes on our talk page.

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