Saints

Popular and Favorite Saints

A canonized saint is a person whom the Church declares to already be in possession of the Beatific Vision (i.e., one whose soul is in Heaven and ‘sees’ God). The Catholic Church canonizes or beatifies only those whose lives have been marked by the exercise of heroic virtue, and only after this has been proved by common repute for sanctity and conclusive arguments.

1. Venerable > 2. Blessed/Beatified > 3. Saint

Catholics never pray TO saints. Rather, saints are venerated & we ask for their intercession. We ask saints to pray to God on our behalf.

Honoring saints

1. Instruction – writings and words

2. Inspiration – we model our way of life to their example

3. Intercession – we ask them to pray for us

7 categories of saints (source)

1. Apostles

2. Evangelists

3. Martyrs

4. Confessors

5. Doctors

6. Virgins

7. Holy Women

Other saints from tapestries of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels: Mary of Jesus Crucified,  Philomena, Justin, Maragaret of Scotland, Helen,  Louise De Marillac, Emydius, Lorenzo Ruiz, Philippine Duchesne, John Baptist Scalabrini, Joseph Vaz, Aloysius Gonzaga, Stephen of Hungary, Marie-Rose, Durocher, Barnabus, Jane Frances De Chantal, Antony Claret, Methodius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Pius X, Isaac Jogues, Martha, Timothy, Benedict the Black, Lucia Khambang, Jerome, Rose of Lima, Lucy, Blaise, Francis Xavier, John Chrysostom, Alojzije Stepinac, Jacinta, Peter Chanel, Clare, Jurgis Matulaitis, Bernard, Maria Venegas, Miguel Agustin Pro, Lawrence, Louis Ibaraki, Paul Miki, Charles Lwanga, Agatha, Gregory the Great, Ambrose, Elizabeth of Hungary, Bridget of Sweden, Justin De Jacobis, Boniface, John Vianney, Andrew Kim Taegon, Agnes, Bede, Alphonsus Ligouri, Junipero Serra, John Fisher, Isidore the Farmworker, Maria De La Cabeza, Bruno, Anselm, Bartholomew, Mother Teresa, John XXIII, Elizabeth of Portugal, Andre Bessette, Bonaventure, Peter Claver, Felicitas, Perpetua, Cecilia, Casimir, Frances of Rome, Bernardine of Siena, Katharine Drexel, John of God, John Baptist De La Salle, Paul Chong Hasang, Moses the Ethiopian, Thomas More, Dominic, Ann.