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Saint Teresa of Ávila. In traditional Christian iconography, saints are often depicted with halos as a symbol of holiness.

In religious belief, a saint is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness, likeness, or closeness to God. However, the use of the term saint depends on the context and denomination. In Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, Oriental Orthodox, and Lutheran doctrine, all of their faithful deceased in Heaven are considered to be saints, but some are considered worthy of greater honor or emulation; official ecclesiastical recognition, and consequently a public cult of veneration, is conferred on some saints through the process of canonization in the Catholic Church or glorification in the Eastern Orthodox Church.

While the English word saint originated in Christianity, historians of religion now use the appellation "in a more general way to refer to the state of special holiness that many religions attribute to certain people", referring to the Jewish tzadik, the Islamic walī, the Hindu rishi or Sikh guru, the Shintoist kami, and the Buddhist arhat or bodhisattva also as saints. Depending on the religion, saints are recognized either by official ecclesiastical declaration, as in the Catholic faith, or by popular acclamation (see folk saint). (Full article...)

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Saint Justinian, 482 or 483 CE – 13 or 14 November 565, was the second member of the Justinian Dynasty (after his uncle, Justin I) and Eastern Roman Emperor from 527 until his death. He is considered a saint amongst Eastern Orthodox Christians, and is also commemorated by the Lutheran Church. One of the most important figures of Late Antiquity, Justinian's rule constitutes a distinct epoch in the history of the Byzantine Empire. The impact of his administration extended far beyond the boundaries of his time and empire. Justinian's reign is marked by the ambitious but ultimately failed renovatio imperii, or "restoration of the empire". This ambition was expressed in the partial recovery of the territories of the Western Roman Empire, including the city of Rome itself. A still more resonant aspect of his legacy was the uniform rewriting of Roman law, the Corpus Juris Civilis, which is still the basis of civil law in many modern states. His reign also marked a blossoming of Byzantine culture, and his building program yielded such masterpieces as the church of Hagia Sophia, which was to be the center of Eastern Orthodox Christianity for many centuries. A devastating outbreak of bubonic plague in the early 540s marked the end of an age of splendor. The empire entered a period of territorial decline not to be reversed until the ninth century.

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...that according to legend, when a peasant stole a donkey from Opportuna of Montreuil's abbey, she "left the matter up to God," and the next day, the peasant's field was sown with salt?
...that Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro?
...that Daumantas of Pskov, a Lithuanian dynast involved in the assassination of the first Lithuanian king, was later canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church and became a patron saint of Pskov?

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Selected saint days

1 September Saint Giles
3 September St Gregory the Great
4 September Birinus
9 September Charles Fuge Lowder
13 September John Chrysostom
15 September Cyprian
16 September Saint Ninian
16 September Edward Bouverie Pusey
17 September St Hildegard
19 September Theodore of Tarsus
20 September John Coleridge Patteson
21 September St Matthew
23 September Padre Pio
25 September Lancelot Andrewes
25 September Sergius of Radonezh
26 September Wilson Carlile
27 September Vincent de Paul
28 September Saint Lorenzo Ruiz and his Companions
29 September St Michael
30 September St. Jerome

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Image 1On 4 November 1992, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece unanimously declared Christians that were tortured and massacred by the Turks in the Great fire of Smyrna in 1922 as saints. (from Canonization)
Image 2The symbols of the four Evangelists are here depicted in the Book of Kells. The winged man, lion, eagle and bull symbolize, clockwise from top left, Matthew, Mark, John, and Luke. (from Saint symbolism)
Image 3Mosaics of saints in Church of the Savior on Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia (from Saint)
Image 4Saint Teresa of Ávila. In traditional Christian iconography, saints are often depicted with halos as a symbol of holiness. (from Saint)
Image 5Dutch Book of Prayers from the mid-fifteenth century. Group of five saints. From left to right, Saint Joseph, Saint James the Great, Saint Eligius, Saint Hermes, and Saint Ghislain, with their emblems. (from Saint symbolism)
Image 6Icon of St. Cyprian of Carthage, who urged diligence in the process of canonization (from Canonization)
Image 7A portrait depicting Saint Francis of Assisi by the Italian artist Cimabue (1240–1302) (from Saint)
Image 8Pope Pius II canonizes Catherine of Siena (from Canonization)
Image 9The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria (1876). On 3 April 2011, Batak massacre victims were canonized as saints. (from Canonization)
Image 10"Scripture does not teach calling on the saints or pleading for help from them. For it sets before us Christ alone as mediator, atoning sacrifice, high priest, and intercessor."—A.C. Article XXI. (from Saint)

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