Home›Saints›All SaintsBrowse ByAll SaintsPeople recognised for exceptional holiness and venerated after death. Recognition is not one procedure: canonisation in the Roman church is a formal judicial process with a defined sequence, the Orthodox churches speak instead of glorification, and figures such as Brigid of Kildare, George and Christopher were acclaimed by local devotion long before any central procedure existed. The Marian titles filed here, Our Lady of Charity of El Cobre, Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady of Regla, are one figure named by place, and in Cuban practice they are also where Catholic devotion and Lucumi orisha meet.FactsLearn MoreAll SaintsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedChristian recognition is not one procedure. The earliest cults arose by local acclamation; the Latin Church reserved the judgement to the papacy in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, entrusted it to the Congregation of Rites in 1588 and reformed the process in 1983; the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches recognise saints by decision of their own synods, with no comparable juridical process. 2OverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedMen and women recognised by their tradition as holy, held up as models and often venerated as intercessors. Every figure gathered here is Christian; figures of exceptional holiness in other religions are recognised by quite different means and are not the same institution. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedFigures 1Learn MoreThe Saints This group holds saints, men and women recognised by their traditions as holy, whose lives are held up as models and who are often venerated as intercessors. Sainthood is most formally developed in Christianity, with its processes of canonisation, but analogous figures of exceptional holiness appear across religions. The browser will find the saints the atlas gathers, from martyrs and church fathers to mystics and founders of religious orders. The entries describe each figure's life, reputation for holiness and the devotion attached to them.All SaintsFilter Results64 entriesPlace of OriginAllAksum (1)Ancient Israel (2)Ancient Rome (1)Britain (2)British Isles (1)Byzantine Empire (1)Castile (1)England (2)Germany (2)Greece (1)Italy (5)Rome (1)Scandinavia (1)Valley of Mexico (1)HistoricityAllComposite figure: more than one person or tradition behind the name (1)Historically attested (48)Historicity debated (6)Legendary: known from narrative tradition, not the historical record (10)Not a historical person: a divine or other-than-human being (1)TraditionAllChristianity (64)Office HeldAllBishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia from 370 until his death (1)Bishop of Lyons (1)Bishop of Nyssa from about 372 until his death (1)Founding abbot of Clairvaux (1)One of the seven deacons of Rome under Pope Sixtus II (1)Veneration StatusAllActively venerated in a living tradition (55)Historically attested; no continuous cult (1)No Cult Attested (8)Revered InAllBaha'i Faith (1)Christianity (60)Islam (2)Judaism (2)Manichaeism (1)Santeria (Lucumi) (4)Lifespan Start YearAll1 (1)100 (1)130 (1)225 (1)239 (1)296 (1)316 (1)329 (1)330 (2)335 (1)339 (1)347 (2)349 (1)354 (1)360 (1)451 (1)480 (1)505 (1)540 (1)614 (1)634 (1)673 (1)675 (1)949 (1)1033 (1)1080 (1)1090 (1)1098 (1)1170 (1)1181 (1)1182 (1)1194 (1)1195 (1)1225 (1)1296 (1)1303 (1)1314 (1)1347 (1)1412 (1)1474 (1)1491 (1)1515 (1)1542 (1)1754 (1)1844 (1)1908 (1)1910 (1)Manner Of DeathAllDied of natural causes (31)Executed (3)Martyred (8)Taken up without dying, as the tradition holds (1)GenderAllBeyond gender (1)Female (18)Male (45)CanonizationAllCult reduced to local calendars in the 1969 revision (2)Formally canonized (39)Pre-Congregation: venerated before any formal process existed (31)Venerable: the stage after Servant of God, before beatification (2)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 64Ambrose of MilanSaintsAnselm of CanterburySaintsAnthony of PaduaSaintsAthanasius of AlexandriaSaintsAugustine of HippoSaintsBarbaraSaintsBasil the GreatSaintsBedeSaintsBenedict of NursiaSaintsBernadette SoubirousSaintsBernard of ClairvauxSaintsBridget of SwedenSaintsBrigid of KildareSaintsCaedmonSaintsCatherine of SienaSaintsCeciliaSaintsChristopherSaintsClare of AssisiSaintsCuthbert of LindisfarneSaintsDominic de GuzmanSaintsFrancis of AssisiSaintsFrancisco MartoSaintsGeorgeSaintsGregory of NazianzusSaintsGregory of NyssaSaintsGregory PalamasSaintsGregory the GreatSaintsGregory the IlluminatorSaintsHilda of WhitbySaintsHildegard of BingenSaintsIgnatius of LoyolaSaintsIrenaeusSaintsJacinta MartoSaintsJames the JustSaintsJeromeSaintsJoan of ArcSaintsJohn CassianSaintsJohn ChrysostomSaintsJohn of DamascusSaintsJohn of the CrossSaintsJoseph of NazarethSaintsJuan DiegoSaintsLawrence of RomeSaintsLazarusSaintsLonginusSaintsMacrina the YoungerSaintsMartin of ToursSaintsMarySaintsMichael the ArchangelSaintsNicholasSaintsNorbert of XantenSaintsOur Lady of Charity of El CobreSaintsOur Lady of MercySaintsOur Lady of ReglaSaintsPatrickSaintsSaint YaredSaintsSebastianSaintsSeraphim of SarovSaintsSergius of RadonezhSaintsStephen the ProtomartyrSaintsSymeon the New TheologianSaintsTeresa of AvilaSaintsThomas AquinasSaintsVeronicaSaintsSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editiontier 1F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2005s.v. Canonization of SaintsView the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.