Good deeds, mortal sacrifices and even inexplicable events arising from an apparent divinity, are the reasons why different individuals were beatified and canonized by the Vatican to carry with him the name of saint.
Every daymarked on the calendar, commemorates the life and death of these beings, men and women, who dedicated their existence to the same Catholic Church that earned them the appointment.
This is the saint’s day Sunday May 7.
Saint John of Bevérley, Bishop of York, 1721. He can be considered as a precursor of the Benedictine Pedro Ponce de León, inventor of the method of making deaf-mutes speak. He too was a monk, having studied divine and human letters at Whitby Monastery, ruled by a princess nun, Saint Hilda. He first ruled the Diocese of Hexam, from where he passed to that of York. His biographer tells of him that he managed to make a deaf speak, patiently and ingeniously teaching him vocalization. He died in 721.
Monk of Whitby, England and later Bishop of York; In his eagerness for charity, he arrives to heal a deaf, to discover a way of patient vocalization. Although he died in 721, he has therefore been considered a forerunner of the Benedictine scholar Ponce de León.
Along with this character is other saints and martyrs which are also celebrated this Sunday, May 7, as the following:
Saint Augustine Roscelli
Saint Anthony of kyiv
Saint Benedict II Pope
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Saint Domitilla and companions
Saint Flavius and fellow martyrs
Blessed Albert of Bergamo
Blessed Gisela
Blessed Rosa Venerini
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.
