D- Doctor of the Church M- Martyr R- Recluse V -Virgin Ven.- Venerable [LFMS] -source Butler's Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints [LS] -source Butler's Lives of the Saints [CE] -source the
We, as Latter-day Saints, often cite the name of the church as an indication that the LDS Church is truly God's one, true church. We often say things like the Lutheran Church can't be God's church because it is named after a man, Martin Luther. The word 'Catholic' just means ...
Kyiv-Galicia and the Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church) said that God created us in His own image and likeness, “He who is Light, created people in the image of His own light. He wanted us to be not just like Him and His everlasting light, but become the light ourselves...
Today marks the memorial of theearly martyrs Perpetua and Felicity, put to death likely in the year 203, under the reign of Septimius Severus, an emperor who seems on the whole to have been well-disposed to Christians. But the true religion was still one hundred and ten years away from b...
Praying to Saints: Overlooking the Obvious Some objections to the concept of prayer to the saints betray restricted notions of heaven. One comes from anti-Catholic Loraine Boettner: “How, then, can a human being such as Mary hear the prayers of millions of Roman Catholics, in many different...
All Saints' Church is an active English-speaking chaplaincy of the Church of England's Diocese in Europe - a part of the Anglican Communion - in Rome, Italy.
Traditionally, however, the Catholic Church has recognized three classes of relics, and Canon 1190’s prohibition on the sale of relics appears to apply only to the sale of what are known as “first-class relics.” Classes of Relics
This chapter reconsiders the character of the Catholic Saint in The Well of the Saints. Analysis in this chapter suggests that the Saint in this play is a Protestant tramp with pre-Christian beliefs that has the unique ability of harnessing miraculous po
Church grounds itself in the past and keeps history alive. Much of Protestantism suffers from a combination of presentism and amnesia–often willful amnesia. Yet my adopted denomination values the past. Principles come from the Bible. The lives of the saints provide illustrations of how people ...
Female saint veneration occurs throughout Christendom, though most prominently within Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Known as models of holiness, these women contribute to the communion of saints: the Church Militant (saints living on Earth); the Church Penitent (saints in Purgatory); and the Ch...