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A saint is a particularly good or holy person, whose life and actions are considered inspirational. The term is used within Christianity, with definitions varying by denomination. English-language publications will sometimes use saint to describe a revered person from another religion. The word itself means “holy” and is derived from the Latin sanctus. During periods of Christianity, many people have prayed to saints as intercessors, and communities developed strong rituals around particular saints, adopting one or more as patron saints of a locale or occupation.
In Christianity, the concept arose in early Greek Christian literature with the use of the word hagios (Greek άγιος meaning “holy” or "holy one") and in the New Testament, where was used to describe the followers of Jesus of Nazareth. (In the Old Testament, the cognate is the Hebrew word qodesh, קדש)
Other religions also recognize certain individuals as having particular holiness (or enlightenment.) For instance, the figures of bodhissatvas in Buddhism occupy a space between people in daily life and the Buddha they work to emulate. In traditional Sephardic Judaism in North Africa, revered rabbis were honored locally in rituals at their graves. In each religious tradition, there has been an official position about the role of saints and similar figures, for instance, in theology, and there have been popular traditions that are created organically by the people.
Saint Jude Thaddeus, by Georges de La Tour. c. 1615-1620.
Anastasia was a younger sister of Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana and Grand Duchess Maria, and was an elder sister of Alexei Nikolaievitch, Tsarevitch of Russia. She is presumed to have been murdered with her family on July 17, 1918, by forces of the Bolshevik secret police. However, rumors have persisted of her possible escape since 1918, fueled by reports that two sets of remains, identified as Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and either Anastasia or her elder sister Maria, were missing from a mass grave found near Ekaterinburg and later identified through DNA testing as the Romanovs. In January 2008 Russian scientists announced that the charred remains of a young boy and a young woman found near Ekaterinburg in August 2007 are most likely those of the thirteen-year-old Tsarevich and one of the four Romanov grand duchesses. Final results of the DNA testing are scheduled to be announced later in April or May 2008.
Several women have claimed to have been Anastasia, the most famous of whom was Anna Anderson. Anderson's body was cremated upon her death in 1984. Despite support for her claim from several people who knew Anastasia and denial by many who knew the real Anastasia, DNA testing in 1994 on pieces of Anderson's tissue and hair showed no relation to DNA of the Grand Duchess.
The Calendar of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa is published in An Anglican Prayer Book 1989.[1]
The Preface to the calendar in the Prayer Book describes its purpose: The Church's Year both commemorates and proclaims how God came down from heaven to earth in Jesus Christ, who still lives among us by the Holy Spirit until he comes again at the end of time. The yearly observance of the holy days of the Calendar is a celebration of what God has done and is doing for our salvation.
Holy Days are distinguished as Great Festivals (being the principal celebrations), Festivals (celebrating New Testament events), Commemorations (recalling particular individuals and events), and other Special Days - the observance of the former taking precedence over the latter in the event of clashes. The Preface to the calendar describes the commemorations as occasions: when the Church thankfully recalls the work and witness of men and women through whom Christ's saving victory has been manifested from the time of the apostles to the present day.
...that the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”?
To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living but existing. -Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati
The Saints Wikiproject aims primarily at standardizing the articles about people venerated by some Christians as saints or the blessed and ensuring quality articles.
Non-Christian Saints If there is an interest in including saints from religions other than Christianity, please propose those changes on our talk page and we can integrate them into the wikiproject.
To do
- {{WikiProject Saints}} This should be edited in the discussion page of all project pages to reflect a current assessment.
- The Saints Portal needs some dedicated work.
- Write articles or find redirects for Saints at Wikipedia:WikiProject Saints/Missing articles.
- Write articles or find redirects for Beatifieds in the Catholic Encyclopedia but not in Wikipedia.
- Saints images
- Move images from other language wikis to the Commons.
- Help categorize existing images by nationality.
- Add all articles that fall within the scope of this project to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Saints/Articles list
- Check recent changes for recent improvements, other changes, or vandalism to these articles.
- Check Category:Saints articles needing attention for articles requiring immediate attention.
- Add {{Infobox Saint}} or {{portalpar|Saints|Gloriole.svg}} to all articles in Category:Saints articles needing infoboxes
