A few decades, even centuries ago, the ancestors used to name their children with the name of the saint of the day they were born, not in vain in the famous “Mañanitas” there is a stanza that says: “Today, because it is your saint’s day, we sing them to you here…”.
He onomastic alludes to the day on which a saint is celebrated, although it is common for many people to use it as a synonym for birthday, which is wrong, because when talking about it they only allude to the list of holy names.
As every day of the year, today also commemorates the women and men who stood out for having special connections with the divinities, who did good deeds for their neighbors and who had high ethics and morals, reasons that led them to be canonized or beatified and be part of the saints.
This is the saint’s day Wednesday May 3.
Feast of Saints Felipe and Santiago, apostles. Philip, who, like Peter and Andrew, had been born in Betsaida and was a disciple of John the Baptist, was called by the Lord to follow him. Santiago, for his part, was the son of Alphaeus, nicknamed “Justo”, considered in the West as the relative of the Lord, he was the first to govern the Church of Jerusalem and when the controversy over circumcision arose, he adhered to the opinion of Peter, so that the ancient yoke would not be imposed on the disciples who came from the Gentiles. Very soon he crowned his apostolate with martyrdom (1st century).
Along with this character is other saints and martyrs which are also celebrated this Wednesday, May 3 as the following:
Saint James the Less Apostle
Saint Alexander I Pope
Saint Ansfrid
San Conleto
Saint Juvenal of Narni
Saint Maura of Antinoe
Saint Peter of Argo
Saint Theodosius of kyiv
Saint Timothy of Antinoe
Saint Violet virgin and martyr
Blessed Emilia Bicchieri
Blessed Stanislaus Kazimierczyk
Blessed Maria Leonia Paradis
The saints is the group of people (women and men) who they are venerated by the Church when they are proclaimed as saints or blessed on a certain date on the calendar.
On the path to canonization there are four steps: the first is to be appointed as a servant of God, the second is to be venerable; the third step is to be blessed and, finally, the fourth step is to be a saint.
The beatification It can only be achieved by the faithful who have died with a reputation for being saints in various places and this process can be carried out in two ways: through a cause of heroic virtues and the second is martyrdom, that is, if the person He died for his faith.
On the other hand, the process to become a saint It implies adding the name of the person sanctified in the canon (list of recognized saints) and with this the believing community is allowed to pay him public and universal worship, while a liturgical feast is assigned to him, altars, chapels and his power to intercede with God is recognized.
Although the Church has not given an exact figure, it is believed that there would currently be up to nine thousand recognized saints. According to roman martyrologyupdated in 2005, the Catholic Church has at least seven thousand saintsalthough the martyrs are not counted, so many think that the figure could even reach 20 thousand people.
In recent history, Pope John Paul II managed to canonize 388 saints, while Pope Francis has broken all records after that to this day he has canonized 898 saints, 800 of them at the same time.
