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Patron Saints: Saints for Every Member of Your Family, Every Profession, Every Ailment, Every Emergency, and Even Every Amusement
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Like, Michael, the archangel, is the patron saint for soliders because he is known to fight Satan. He is the guard of the Kingdom.
But as for Dymphna, patron saint of people with mental illnesses, I was wondering how the Church comes to the decision of what a saint will help us with? Anyone know? Thanks!
yeah, I know there is a reason but some saints did a lot in their lifetime and I'm wondering how the Church decides on it.
Some saints are recognized as patron saints of certain peoples, places, things, and occupations due to circumstances surrounding their lives.
For example:
People: Saint Peter was a fisherman before he became a fisher of men and is the patron saint of fishermen (and popes).
Place: Saint Patrick brought Christianity to Ireland and is the patron saint of Ireland.
Things: Saint Claire was near death and was unable to attend Mass, she turned in the direction of the Chapel. The wall between her and Chapel vanished and she was able to both view the Mass and participate. For this reason, she is the patroness of TV.
Occupation: Saint Matthew the Apostle was a tax collector and is the patron of accountants, bankers, bookkeepers, and, yes, tax collectors .
For lists of patron saints by topic, see:
http://saints.sqpn.com/patron00.htm
http://www.catholic.org/saints/patron.ph p
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features /Saints/patrons.asp
With love in Christ.
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I know theres one in the Romano Catholic church.
SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY PLEASE. I have been seeing some answers on here that deny the Catholics pray to saints. I was raised a Catholic and I know that in times past it was commmon to pray to Mary. There is a patron saint for lost things, for travel, for animals (pets), etc. You pray with the mention of Peter, "the first apostolic pope". The list could go on.
I want to know when --- by decree -- the Catholic church quit praying to saints. Did this actually happen or is it something that has "gone underground".
Don't give me the answer that you personally do not pray to saints.
That is good if you don't, however we are talking about the "church organization" not the individuals.
Why do you even try to communicate with them?
They are Dead!
Eccl 9: 5. For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
angelsgurl ... you jsut typed a prayer to a saint... Don't telll me she is not a saint, because then it would mean you thought she was a god and that is bad.
It would be more accurate to say Catholics offer prayers of "petition" to Mary and the Saints. The phrase "praying to", when taken disingenously, implies a violation of the First Commandment.
The Church has not, in any way, shape, or form, stopped the tradition of praying to Mary and/or the Saints.
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11/25 on the Tridentine Calendar.
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A patron is one who has been assigned by a venerable tradition, or chosen by election, as a special intercessor with God and the proper advocate of a particular locality, and is honoured by clergy and people with a special form of religious observance. The term “patron”, being wider in its meaning than that of “titular”, may be applied to a church, a district, a country, or a corporation. The word “titular” is applied only to the patron of a church or institution. Both the one and the other, according to the legislation now in force, must have the rank of a canonized saint.
Patrons of Churches
Origin
During the first three centuries of the Church’s history, the faithful assembled for worship in private houses, in cemeteries, or other retired places. At intervals it had been possible to erect or adapt buildings for the sacred rites of religion. Such buildings, however, were not dedicated to the saints, but were spoken of as the House of God, the House of Prayer, and sometimes as the Temple of God. They were also known as Kyriaca, Dominica, or Oratoria. Larger structures received the name of basilicas, and the term church (ecclesia) was constantly employed to designate the place where the faithful assembled to hear the word of God and partake of the sacraments. After peace had been given to the Church by Constantine, sacred edifices were freely erected, the emperor setting the example by the character and magnificence of his own foundations. The Christians had always held in deep reverence the memory of the heroes who had sealed with blood the profession of their faith. The celebration of the solemn rites had long been intimately associated with the places where the bodies of the martyrs reposed, and the choice of sites for the new edifices was naturally determined by the scene of the martyrs’ sufferings, or by the spot where their sacred remains lay enshrined. The great basilicas founded by Constantine, or during his lifetime, illustrate this tendency. The churches of Saint Peter, Saint Paul outside the walls, Saint Lawrence in Agro Verano, Saint Sebastian, Saint Agnes on the Via Nomentana were all cemeterial basilicas, i.e. they were built over the spot where the bodies of each of these saints lay buried. The same practice finds illustration in the churches of Saints Domitilla and Generosa, Saints Nereus and Achilleus, Saint Felix at Nola, and others. From this custom of rendering honour to the relics of the martyrs were derived the names of Memoriœ (memorial churches), Martyria, or Confessio, frequently given to churches. The name of “Title” (Titulus) has from the earliest times been employed with reference to the name of the saint by which a church is known. The practice of placing the body or some relics of a martyr under the altar of sacrifice has been perpetuated in the Church, but the dedication was early extended to confessors and holy women who were not martyrs. The underlying doctrine of patrons is that of the communion of saints, or the bond of spiritual union existing between God’s servants on earth, in heaven, or in purgatory. The saints are thereby regarded as the advocates and intercessors of those who are making their earthly pilgrimage.
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