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St. 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 or 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", with the Jewish tzadik, the Islamic wal?, the Hindu rishi or Sikh guru, the Shintoist kami, and the Buddhist arhat or bodhisattva also being referred to 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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Depiction of St. Thomas Aquinas from The Demidoff Altarpiece by Carlo Crivelli

Saint Thomas Aquinas, O.P. (also Thomas of Aquin or Aquino; born ca. 1225; died 7 March 1274) was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in the Dominican Order from Italy, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis. He is frequently referred to as Thomas because "Aquinas" refers to his residence rather than his surname. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.

Aquinas is held in the Roman Catholic Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood. The works for which he is best-known are the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. One of the 33 Doctors of the Church, he is considered by many Christians to be the Roman Catholic Church's greatest theologian and philosopher. Consequently, many institutions of learning have been named after him. The Eastern Orthodox Church has had a complex relationship with Aquinas' work. In the twentieth century, there was a reaction against this "Latin captivity" of the Orthodox theology, and later writers have emphasized the otherness of scholasticism.

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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

2 January Saint Basil the Great
2 January Gregory of Nazianzus
2 January Saint Seraphim of Sarov
7 January Saint Raymond of Peñafort
10 January William Laud
11 January Mary Slessor
12 January Saint Aelred of Hexham
12 January Benedict Biscop
13 January Saint Hilary
13 January Kentigern
17 January Saint Antony of Egypt
17 January Charles Gore
19 January Saint Wulfstan
20 January Richard Rolle of Hampole
20 January Saint Fabian
21 January Saint Agnes
22 January Vincent of Saragossa
24 January Francis de Sales
25 January The Conversion of Saint Paul
26 January Saint Timothy and Saint Titus
27 January Saint Angela Merici
28 January Saint Thomas Aquinas
30 January Charles I of England
30 January St Hyacintha Mariscotti
31 January Saint John Bosco

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Pope Pius II canonizes Catherine of Siena
On 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.
Dutch 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.
Mosaics of saints in Church of the Savior on Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Icon of St. Cyprian of Carthage, who urged diligence in the process of canonization
The Turkish atrocities in Bulgaria (1876). On 3 April 2011, Batak massacre victims were canonized as saints.
"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.
A portrait depicting Saint Francis of Assisi by the Italian artist Cimabue (1240-1302)
St. Teresa of Ávila. In traditional Christian iconography, saints are often depicted with halos as a symbol of holiness.
The 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.

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