Protestant Saints

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I have several “Catholic” saints who I admire.
Who are the Protestant saints that Catholics admire?
 
George Fox and Elizabeth Fry come to mind. And the Methodist who was instrumental in stopping the English slave trade.
 
I have strong respect for several protestant leaders/theologians including Billy Graham, John Wesley, Soren Kierkegaard, CS Lewis, Dr. Cheryl Johns (one of my former seminary professors) down to my Sunday school teachers I had growing up. These people are evidence to me that the Spirit of God works in all Christians in all bodies.

I believe as someone coming into the church at this Easter Vigil, that I will be moving towards having the fullness of truth. However, I embrace all Christians as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, especially when I see the Lord working in their lives.
 
Nowadays in the Catholic Church, a Saint is somebody who has performed a miracle before and after their death. This has to be strictly examined and confirmed by authorities (incl the Pope) in the Catholic Church.

What’s a Protestant Saint? I don’t think I know any.
 
JohnnyReb said:
I have strong respect for several protestant leaders/theologians including Billy Graham, John Wesley, Soren Kierkegaard, CS Lewis, Dr. Cheryl Johns (one of my former seminary professors) down to my Sunday school teachers I had growing up. These people are evidence to me that the Spirit of God works in all Christians in all bodies.

I believe as someone coming into the church at this Easter Vigil, that I will be moving towards having the fullness of truth. However, I embrace all Christians as fellow brothers and sisters in Christ, especially when I see the Lord working in their lives.
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John Wesley who started orphanages, hospitals and led 10.000s to Christ a prolific author who died worth $34. an incredible story.
 
Charlie_Zeaiter said:
Nowadays in the Catholic Church, a Saint is somebody who has performed a miracle before and after their death. This has to be strictly examined and confirmed by authorities (incl the Pope) in the Catholic Church.

What’s a Protestant Saint? I don’t think I know any.
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Someone who led and incredibly Godly life.
 
You know, this is a really difficult thread for me. I can’t think of any Protestants that I admire in a spiritual or religious sense.

Can I say Bob Geldolf or Bono (from U2)? I appreciate their charitable causes - albeit they don’t really have a religious agenda. There also other pop groups, like the band Boney M; I like their songs - particular “Mary’s Boy Child” and “By the rivers of Babylon”.

But I guess I can’t get emotionally attached to any Protestant Saint because I have resentment towards them for not being a part of the Church that - I believe - was founded by Christ.

This is an interesting thread; I’ll be interested to see if any Catholics submit their response for a favourite Protestant Saint. (So far, I don’t think any Catholics have responded.)
 
We don’t have any saints. We sort of borrow the catholic ones. In my opinion they are ours, too. Roanoker
 
Charlie_Zeaiter said:
You know, this is a really difficult thread for me. I can’t think of any Protestants that I admire in a spiritual or religious sense.

Can I say Bob Geldolf or Bono (from U2)? I appreciate their charitable causes - albeit they don’t really have a religious agenda. There also other pop groups, like the band Boney M; I like their songs - particular “Mary’s Boy Child” and “By the rivers of Babylon”.

But I guess I can’t get emotionally attached to any Protestant Saint because I have resentment towards them for not being a part of the Church that - I believe - was founded by Christ.

This is an interesting thread; I’ll be interested to see if any Catholics submit their response for a favourite Protestant Saint. (So far, I don’t think any Catholics have responded.)
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Allow me 🙂 I would say John Wesley, Dr Martin Luther King, Archbishop Desmond Tutu … perhaps I’d come up with others given a little more time to think about it…
 
Charlie_Zeaiter said:
You know, this is a really difficult thread for me. I can’t think of any Protestants that I admire in a spiritual or religious sense.

Can I say Bob Geldolf or Bono (from U2)? I appreciate their charitable causes - albeit they don’t really have a religious agenda.
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Bob Geldof doesn’t seem to be religious at all, and I understand Bono is Catholic.
 
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Bob Geldof doesn’t seem to be religious at all, and I understand Bono is Catholic.
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Bono is in fact from a mixed marriage and while remarkable respectful to the Catholic Church, showing a great deal of good will, identifies himself just as “Christian” with a rather Protestant view of the definition. He grew up attending Anglican services with his mum.

From wikipedia:
Bono was raised in Dublin alongside his brother, Norman Hewson, by his mother, Iris (née Rankin), a Church of Ireland Anglican, and his father, Brendan Robert “Bob” Hewson, a Roman Catholic.[2][3] His parents initially agreed that the first child would be raised Anglican and the second Catholic. [19] However, although Bono was the second child, he also attended Church of Ireland services with his mother and brother.[19]
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In 2005, he told Rolling Stone that “I believe there’s a force of love and logic…behind the universe. And I believe in the poetic genius of a creator who would choose to express such unfathomable power as a child born in ‘straw poverty’; i.e., the story of Christ makes sense to me.” He added, “I guess that would make me a Christian. Although I don’t use the label, because it is very hard to live up to. I feel like I’m the worst example of it, so I just kinda keep my mouth shut.”
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Bono does get a great deal of respect from me for his ideals and hard work.

Who knows? He seems to have made some of the right friends!

http://www.signis.net/IMG/jpg/bono_pope.jpg
 
I am Catholic so all I can say it is up to God. I cannot judge a person’s soul, and especially with people outside the Church, it is better to just urge people to become Catholic.
God judges, we are just instruments He can use to bring people closer to Him.

There is a slight chance that some have had perfect repentance and humilty at the time of their death and God gave them the opportunity to fully embrace Him. He always gives souls chances to be united to Him as He desires all men to be saved.

I cannot think of any Protestants that I know who lived extremely holy lives, but who knows, God is ever merciful and works in many ways. I pray for everyone especially those outside the Church, that they may submit to Christ and His truth.

There are probably some who have. We do not know what most people have experienced or done, right before they died. That is between them and God.

In Christ
Scylla
 
scylla said:
I am Catholic so all I can say it is up to God. I cannot judge a person’s soul, and especially with people outside the Church, it is better to just urge people to become Catholic.
God judges, we are just instruments He can use to bring people closer to Him.

There is a slight chance that some have had perfect repentance and humilty at the time of their death and God gave them the opportunity to fully embrace Him. He always gives souls chances to be united to Him as He desires all men to be saved.

I cannot think of any Protestants that I know who lived extremely holy lives, but who knows, God is ever merciful and works in many ways. I pray for everyone especially those outside the Church, that they may submit to Christ and His truth.

There are probably some who have. We do not know what most people have experienced or done, right before they died. That is between them and God.

Does the same formula apply to your RC saints?

In Christ
Scylla
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Hisalone said:
I have several “Catholic” saints who I admire.
Who are the Protestant saints that Catholics admire?
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Catherine Marshall has always been one of my favorite Protestant authors. I also admire the lives of Corrie and Betsie Ten Boom.

And, if I may also include two people who are Mormon, for the sake of our Mormon visitors, especially Annie, I’d have to include George and Olive Osmond. I think both of them can be included as Saints because of the outstanding family they raised with such love and devotion.

Kathy
 
I would like to pay tribute to the “Four Chaplains” whose true story can be found here:
homeofheroes.com/brotherhood/chaplains.html
  • Reverend Fox was a Methodist Minister
  • Reverend Poling was a Dutch Reformed Minister
  • Father Washington was a Catholic Priest
  • **Rabbi Goode was Jewish
    **
    http://www.homeofheroes.com/brotherhood/chaplains_portrait.jpg
 
Technically St. PATRICK was a protestant saint.
While Rome tried to claim that he was sent to Ireland by the Pope his writings clearly show this is untrue. Rather more in opposition to Rome.
 
  • Tommy Douglas, Baptist minister, founder of the CCF
  • Terry Waite, former representative of the Abp of Canterbury
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor and virulent anti-Nazi; co-founder of the Confessing Church; hanged for conspiracy with the plot to kill Hitler
  • Paul Schneider, German Reformed pastor, member of the Confessing Church, murdered at Buchenwald
  • Dusty Miller, Methodist, WWII POW of the Japanese, whose self-sacrifice and service to others helped restore the faith and hope of soldiers in the camps
  • Raoul Wallenberg, Swedish diplomat who helped Jews escape Nazi Germany
And just to raise some eyebrows:
  • Albert Göring (brother of Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring), named “Righteous among the Nations” by Yad Vashem
The Church of England canonized Charles I (King and Martyr).
 
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