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Flopfoot
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I have heard that you can pray to ‘saints’ who aren’t officially declared saints by the Church (because that’s how people become saints, by people praying to them). But does it have to be someone who we think might become an official saint, or can we pray to any dead person? I suppose that it wouldn’t work if that person we prayed to was in hell, but then again there are a lot of cases where we don’t know for sure if someone is in heaven or hell. For example, could I pray for the intercession of Cliff Burton to help me improve at playing the bass? He was bassist of Metallica, a musical inspiration of mine, died in a bus accident about 20 years ago, not sure if he was religious, but that doesn’t mean that he’s not in heaven or purgatory at least.