Protestant "Saints" - Who would choose to "Canonize"

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mercygate said:
Harumph. I did a “search thread” and nothing came up. Go figure.
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I believe someone mentioned Betsie ten Boom. Corrie ten Boom and Caspar ten Boom would be good canidates as well.

I loved the movie “The Hiding Place”…I own it on VHS. I love the book and Corrie’s companion volume “A Prisoner and Yet…”
 
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I believe someone mentioned Betsie ten Boom. Corrie ten Boom and Caspar ten Boom would be good canidates as well.

I loved the movie “The Hiding Place”…I own it on VHS. I love the book and Corrie’s companion volume “A Prisoner and Yet…”
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I had mentioned Betsie because, although Caspar and Corrie were certainly heroic and no doubt holy people, I felt Betsie exemplified the sort of heroic virtue for which Catholics have been canonized. Corrie herself bore witness to the exceptional virtues of her sister. It’s sort of the way Sr. Lucia of the Fatima visions recognized the exceptional virtue of little Jacinta and Martos, who are now blesseds in the Church.
 
I think many Protestants are great but how could any Christian not under apostolic succession even be considered for sainthood. Seems an odd question to me- a nice gesture of ecumenism though.
 
I don’t recall seeing him mentioned so far, but I think C.S.Lewis would pretty well qualify as a n-C saint.
 
Feanor said:
I think many Protestants are great but how could any Christian not under apostolic succession even be considered for sainthood. Seems an odd question to me- a nice gesture of ecumenism though.
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I did not ask to see who the Catholic Church should canonize, just who protestants would hold in that type of high regard.

Peace
James
 
Oh- my mistake.

Then I would go for C. S. Lewis. and Martin Luther King jr.
 
Cassie Bernall – the Columbine HS girl who said “yes” at gunpoint when asked if she believed in God.
 
Feanor said:
I think many Protestants are great but how could any Christian not under apostolic succession even be considered for sainthood. Seems an odd question to me- a nice gesture of ecumenism though.
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Hey Bud get used to it.
Heaven is going to be full of SDA and Baptists and all sorts you dont much like.
 
Hisalone said:
Hey Bud get used to it.
Heaven is going to be full of SDA and Baptists and all sorts you dont much like.
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Aside from Feanor’s tone, the problem is that the sainthood conferred by God is a different issue from the OP. Feanor was challenging the idea of nominating non-Catholics as if they would be eligible for the canonical process by which the Church discerns that a person is, in fact, and without a doubt, among the Blessed.

The OP did not suggest that the Church should canonize non-Catholics. And the Church does not say that non-Catholics are not in Heaven.

Why does everything have to turn into a snipe-fest?
 
mercygate said:
Aside from Feanor’s tone, the problem is that the sainthood conferred by God is a different issue from the OP. Feanor was challenging the idea of nominating non-Catholics as if they would be eligible for the canonical process by which the Church discerns that a person is, in fact, and without a doubt, among the Blessed.

The OP did not suggest that the Church should canonize non-Catholics. And the Church does not say that non-Catholics are not in Heaven.

Why does everything have to turn into a snipe-fest?
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Actually I’m pretty happy about how the thread has gone so far.
Alsthoug I whould like to see folks give a little bit more info rather than just lis a name. Many of these folks I’ve not heard of. Of course I can look them up, but I’m lazy.😊

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James
 
I’d second George Fox…one of my favorite books of inspiration is his Journal. Friend George would turn over in his grave to think others thought him a saint.🙂
 
grampben said:
It was not a ‘federal crime’, this is not the USA we’re talking about.

But according to the catholic church, all protestants are apostate catholics are we not? :rolleyes:

The state did nothing to Wycliffe until his translation got popular. It wasn’t him anti-icon beliefs or his belief in consubstantiation that got him killed, it was his translating of the Bible into the vernacular. Imagine the peasants actually knowing the word of the Lord?!?!?!
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You can’t be as apostate Catholic unless you were once Catholic and apostacized, so no, all Protestants are not apostate Catholics.
 
Any person who has shed their blood for Jesus Christ should be considered Saints and of heroic virtue. Which, of course, includes the Protestants who have done so and are still doing so.
 
CB_Catholic said:
Any person who has shed their blood for Jesus Christ should be considered Saints and of heroic virtue. Which, of course, includes the Protestants who have done so and are still doing so.
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In the Office of Readings for the memorial of the Charles Lwanga and companions (aka the Martyrs of Uganda), Pope Paul VI mentions the Anglican Christians who also died in that holocaust:

"Nor must we forget those members of the Anglican Church who also died for the name of Christ.
These African martyrs herald the dawn of a new age. If only the mind of man might be directed not toward persecutions and religious conflicts but toward a rebirth of Christianity and civilisation!

Africa has been washed by the blood of these latest martyrs, the first of this new age (and, God willing, let them be the last, although such a holocaust is precious indeed)."
 
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