Do Oriental Orthodox ever pray to Catholic saints or Eastern Orthodox Saints?

[Guest1]

Anyone know if they have rules about that?

 

[adamhovey1988]

There’s a shared history there, so a lot of the Saints are going to be the same.

 

[AlNg]

There’s a shared history there, so a lot of the Saints are going to be the same.

True, but there are a few that are not the same. Do Catholics accept all the saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church, including those that have not been officially canonized in the Roman Catholic Church?

 

[adamhovey1988]

I don’t know. I know Pope Francis referred to some of the Saints that are venerated in the Armenian Apostolic Church as Saints.

 

[AlNg]

I don’t know.

Here are some saints in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, but not in the Roman Catholic tradition.
Abo of Tiflis
Abraham of Rostov
Abraham of Smolensk
Agapetus of Pechersk
Alexander Schmorell
Alexandra of Hess
Alexei of Russia
Alexis of Wilkes Barre
Am;philochius of Pochayiv
Anastasua of Russia
Andrew of Constantinople
Anna
Anthony of Kiev
Basil the Fool for Christ
and many others

 

[Brandon_Cal]

The Oriental Orthodox have spent three times as long apart from the Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox than they have spent together.

 

[Spyridon]

True, but there are a few that are not the same. Do Catholics accept all the saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church, including those that have not been officially canonized in the Roman Catholic Church?

Sure we do. Why wouldn’t we? Eastern Catholics venerate them, so Roman Catholics can too.

@AlNg you have to understand something about us… we don’t really consider the Orthodox to be separated from us. We view the Orthodox as siblings in the Apostolic Faith.

St. Mark of Ephesus, pray for us
St. Photius the Great, pray for us
St. Gregory Palamas, pray for us
St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us
St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us
St. Anselm of Canterbury, pray for us

 

[Spyridon]

One of the Saints of the Armenian Apostolic (Oriental Orthodox) and Armenian Catholics (Eastern Catholics) was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Francis.

St. Gregory of Narek, pray for us

 

[TigerLily-1]

If you’re not already familiar with it, please check out this website about St. Grigor Narekatsi (St. Gregory Narek). It has information about him and quotes from his book of prayer.
http://www.stgregoryofnarek.am/intro.php

 

[adamhovey1988]

You just asked me, then you go on a Litany of names, that seems like an attack, because I said I don’t know. I am not in the mood today, so please cut it out.

 

[adamhovey1988]

One of these days, I got to go to an Armenian Catholic Mass.

 

[AlNg]

Sure we do. Why wouldn’t we? Eastern Catholics venerate them, so Roman Catholics can too.

@AlNg you have to understand something about us… we don’t really consider the Orthodox to be separated from us. We view the Orthodox as siblings in the Apostolic Faith.

St. Mark of Ephesus, pray for us

St. Photius the Great, pray for us

St. Gregory Palamas, pray for us

St. Thomas Aquinas, pray for us

St. Robert Bellarmine, pray for us

St. Anselm of Canterbury, pray for us

There is a problem.
I didn’t know that OO or EO considered St. Anselm of Canterbury or St. Thomas Aquinas to be a saints.
Also it was not mentioned, but I also don’t think that St. Josaphat Kuntsevych is a saint in the Eastern or Oriental Orthodox church.
Further do you consider Tsar Nicholas II to be a saint? He is a saint in the Russian Orthodox church.

 

[Mary888]

The common saints are the ones canonized.before the Schism. Officially no, the Catholic do not have devotion to Orthodox saints after Schism and viceversa so they are not commonly recognized as such.
Even some older saints have different status.One notable example is Augustin - “saint” for Catholic and “happy” for Orthodox.

 

[Spyridon]

Further do you consider Tsar Nicholas II to be a saint? He is a saint in the Russian Orthodox church.

Yes I do.

St. Tsar Nicholas the Passionbearer, pray for us

 

[AlNg]

Yes I do.

Do you also consider St. Josaphat Kuntsevych to be a saint? I believe that he is a saint in the Roman Catholic church and that some churches are even named after him.

 

[Spyridon]

Yes I do.

I consider all Roman Catholic, all Oriental Orthodox, and all Eastern Orthodox Saints to be saints.

 

[babochka]

I have a particular devotion to St. Elizabeth the new Martyr and St. Sophia of Trace. I’ve also been praying for the intercession of St. Nectarios for my father, who has cancer.

 

[babochka]

Even some older saints have different status.One notable example is Augustin - “saint” for Catholic and “happy” for Orthodox.

He is listed among the Fathers of the Church and that status is unqualified.

There is no single Orthodox view of Augustine in the East. Happy is not a term I’m familiar with to describe a Saint. Perhaps it also translated as “blessed”? I have heard that.

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Augustine_of_Hippo

 

[Mary888]

Blessed yes.
Blessed Augustine. It is the Greek makarios yes? Sometimes it’s translated as “happy” but not in this case.
http://biblehub.com/greek/3107.htm

 

[babochka]

Blessed yes.
Blessed Augustine. It is the Greek makarios yes? Sometimes it’s translated as “happy” but not in this case.
http://biblehub.com/greek/3107.htm

I only though it was probably a translation issue because when the Ruthenian Church issued a new translation a few years back, one of the the translations was corrected from “happy” to “blessed”. Must be a common problem. Now I understand why. Thank you for the link.