Decades ago, one could even speak of centuries, parents used to assign their children’s first names according to the saints’ festivities of that day, even among Catholics and Orthodox the custom of congratulating people on the day of Your saint. 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 Monday May 1.
Commemoration of Saint Jeremiah, prophet, who lived in the time of Joaquim and Zedecías, kings of Judah. He prophesied the ruin of the Holy City and the deportation of the people, suffering many persecutions because of it, which is why the Church considers him a figure of the suffering Christ. He also predicted that the new and eternal Covenant would reach its fullness in Christ Jesus himself; furthermore, that, through him, God the almighty Father would write his law in the hearts of the children of Israel, so that he himself would be his God and they would be his people.
Along with this character is other saints and martyrs which are also celebrated this Monday, May 1 as the following:
San jose worker
Saint Amador of Auxerre
Saint Andeolus
Saint Arigius of Gap
saint asaph
Saint Brieuc
Santa Grata
Saint Marculf
Saint Orence
Saint Pilgrim Laziosi
Saint Richard Pampuri
Saint Sigismund
Saint Theodard
Santo Torcuato and companions
Blessed Aldebrando
Blessed Clement Septyckyj
Blessed Julian Cesarello
Blessed Mafalda
Blessed Petronilla de Moncel
Blessed Ubaldo of San Geminiano
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.
