List of saints

The list of the Blesseds and Saints contains an alphabetical list of persons. Of the Christian denominations, mainly by Roman Catholics, Orthodox and Anglicans, as are "blessed " or " holy" worshiped

In 2004, the Roman Martyrology was updated, in which 6650 Saints are listed, as well as 7400 martyrs. The Catholic Church does not know the exact number, because the Saints being in its present form was only settled in 1588 by Pope Sixtus V..

In the early Middle Ages, the people decided for themselves practically, whom it considers to be holy. From the High Middle Ages enters canonically defined process of canonization instead. This will be by a defender, the advocate dei, put forward arguments for the canonization, while the devil's advocate argues against the Saints. From the beginning of the 17th century an attempt was made to summarize the Catholic saints encyclopedic, in calendar days ordered ( Acta Sanctorum ). Pope John Paul II beatified 1338 people and 482 people canonized. In the 300 years before that there were a total of only about 300 Saints.

A special case is the column for the Protestant churches is: This reject a formal beatification or canonization as an anticipation of God's saving decision from. The Augsburg Confession recommends in Article 21 but explicitly include the commemoration of saints, but only as examples of faith, while an intermediary or the invocation of saints is rejected. Against this background, official decision-making bodies of Protestant churches have names and calendar of saints placed. In the liturgical practice this hardly play a role, however. To ensure equal treatment of denominations listed in the list, even persons are listed from these calendars still in the appropriate column, for example, from the Protestant calendar name of the EKD and the Holy calendars of the ELCA and the LCMS.

The objective is a complete listing, the list will remain so in need of completion. Because of its scale, it was divided by first letter.

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