This page groups figures by whether they have been through, or are considered for, an official canonization process. Wikipedia notes that canonization is "the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints." Browsing by canonization lets a visitor separate a figure formally declared a saint from one venerated only informally.
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Overview
What Defines This GroupingA comparative heading: close followers who receive and transmit a teaching without the sending role of an apostle. The relations it gathers are defined quite differently by the traditions that hold them, and the obligations of a disciple are not the same in any two of them. 2 Learn More
The disciples
This group gathers disciples, followers and students of a teacher or founder who learn and transmit a tradition without necessarily holding the sending role of an apostle. The term is used across several traditions for the close circle around a master.
The browser will find the figures the atlas classes here. The entries describe each disciple's relation to their teacher and their part in carrying the teaching forward.
Canonization
Sources
1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Tree
2. Encyclopedia of Religion
Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005The classification of religious figuresView the Source Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions
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