How Does one Become A Saint?

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Okay, I’m writing a fictional story about a man who has real powers to heal and even bring people back to life. He can even heal vampires and lycanthropes (a lycanthrope is a shape changer like a werewolf for those who don’t know) of their afflictions. The thing is, he is a converted Catholic and the people who converted him are trying to have him become a Saint.

So how does one become a Saint when they can be proven, even scientifically, to be able to cause real miracles in the modern time?

I posted this here because I didn’t know where to put it. Sorry.
 
Starwynd said:
Okay, I’m writing a fictional story about a man who has real powers to heal and even bring people back to life. He can even heal vampires and lycanthropes (a lycanthrope is a shape changer like a werewolf for those who don’t know) of their afflictions. The thing is, he is a converted Catholic and the people who converted him are trying to have him become a Saint.

So how does one become a Saint when they can be proven, even scientifically, to be able to cause real miracles in the modern time?

I posted this here because I didn’t know where to put it. Sorry.
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No-one is declared a saint until after they are deceased, since every moment of life presents fresh opportunities to lose one’s salvation. Neither would any miracle performed by the candidate during life be taken as proof that they are in heaven - only those attributable to their intercession after their death.
 
Starwynd said:
Okay, I’m writing a fictional story about a man who has real powers to heal and even bring people back to life. He can even heal vampires and lycanthropes (a lycanthrope is a shape changer like a werewolf for those who don’t know) of their afflictions. The thing is, he is a converted Catholic and the people who converted him are trying to have him become a Saint.

So how does one become a Saint when they can be proven, even scientifically, to be able to cause real miracles in the modern time?

I posted this here because I didn’t know where to put it. Sorry.
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It is simple , with or withour miraculous powers: just believe that Christ is Lord and choose to live one’s life in a manner consistent with that belief.
 
Doing greats things don’t of themselves make us saints. It isn’t nessary to do great things in order to become a saint. St Paul tell us that even if we do great things, nothing counts unless love is the basis of what we do.

Saint Therese of Lisieux encourages us in our attempts towards holiness in our vocation to love and serve. Of her own response to the call, she wrote, “This desire could certainly appear daring if one were to consider how weak and imperfect I was, and how after seven years in the religious life, I am still weak and imperfect. I always feel, however, the same bold confidence of becoming a great saint because I do not count on my own merits since I have none, but I trust in God who is Virtue and Holiness. God alone, content with my weak efforts, will raise me to Himself and make me a saint, clothing me in His infinite merits."

We draw hope from this saint of ‘the consecrated ordinary’, whom Pope John Paul 2 declared a Doctor of the Church on October 19, 1997. Many Sisters in her Carmelite community were unaware of the holiness of her ‘ordinary’ deeds of kindness, and doubted that anything worthwhile could appear in her obituary circular. I implore God for ‘everyday’ love and trust such as Therese maintained before temptations of doubt and suffering. Like her, in ordinariness made holy by union with Jesus our God who lived ‘the ordinary life’, we must become shining lights in an era when disbelief, humanism and self-absorption prevail.

Those who are canonized are meant to be examples for us.
If miracles are granted after their death, I guess God is saying, "I want this person to inspire you to learn from their life.’ We’re not going to learn anything from miracles of healing in a person’s life, unless what we’re actually learning is that this person is a true witness of gospel love and truth. I could be granted amazing gifts for my life and others…but if I mess it up with my selfishness and sinfulness and pride, it’s ‘clashing symbols’. I could have authentic visions and miracles in my life…but I could still sin terribly and perhaps not repent due to pride or selfishness, and what would it all mean then?.
 
well, to be a saint, you must first be deceased obviously, you must have two miracles ascribed to you to really get the process moving. and then the individual has to go through several investigations and examinations to determine whether it is a miracle and also whether the person was truly holy to be canonized.

If you want some saints to research that had some mystic powers try Padre Pio or Anne Catherine Emmerich or Thomas a Kempis and several other, then I think you will get an idea about what kind of personality a saint has. Also, there is an older book out there, called Man the Saint, which talks about how an ordinary man can transform himself into a saint, it is kind of outdated for modern minds and thoughts, but you get some good ideas from there for character formation
 
Okay, let me rephrase the question. What are the procedures of the Catholic church to approve a Canonized Saint?

And thanks, I appreciate the replies.
 
David–great minds think alike! If you were 50, male, and single, I’d ask you for a date!!!
 
Starwynd said:
So how does one become a Saint when they can be proven, even scientifically, to be able to cause real miracles in the modern time?
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I guess one way to become a Saint is to root for the team in New Orleans!!! I guess it really would be a miracle if they win the Superbowl.😃 LOL
 
How do the Angels retain the title of Saint? St Michael, St Uriel, St Raphael, St Gabriel, etc…
 
Xzoma said:
How do the Angels retain the title of Saint? St Michael, St Uriel, St Raphael, St Gabriel, etc…
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The communion of saints is the spiritual solidarity which binds together the faithful on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the saints in heaven in the organic unity of the same mystical body under Christ its head, and in a constant interchange of supernatural offices. The participants in that solidarity are called saints by reason of their destination and of their partaking of the fruits of the Redemption (1 Corinthians 1:2 — Greek Text). The damned are thus excluded from the communion of saints. The living, even if they do not belong to the body of the true Church, share in it according to the measure of their union with Christ and with the soul of the Church. St. Thomas teaches (III:8:4) that the angels, though not redeemed, enter the communion of saints because they come under Christ’s power and receive of His gratia capitis.
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