Saints of the East

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Churches don’t really “have” their own saints (since all saints are theoretically in the same place nor only respond to one tradition). Anyway, I understand what you mean :p.

Anyway, most Maronite saints were “canonized” by popular veneration, and many of the major Syriac saints are either Fathers or from the Bible (inclusive of OT). There are the “modern” Maronite saints (i.e. those canonized by the Vatican) that were venerated well before they were canonized, like Mor Sharbel. The veneration of “un-official” saints is still somewhat alive, since (for ex.) the Massabki Brothers were never canonized but they’re often depicted in stain glass and remembered in prayers.
 
An Orthodox friend of mine told me that Pontius Pilate and the late Czar Nicolas were canonized in the Orthodox Church is this correct.
 
Celtic_Maiden said:
An Orthodox friend of mine told me that Pontius Pilate and the late Czar Nicolas were canonized in the Orthodox Church is this correct.
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Well which Orthodox Church must be taken into account. Pontius Pilate is venerated by the Ethiopians because their pious tradition says that Pontius Pilate was repentant and came to believe after the events of the Passion. As for the Romanovs, the entire family that was killed are considered, to some effect, martyrs of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 
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I actually meant Eastern Catholic churches, as I think they follow a calendar similar to the Eastern orthodox equivalent don’t they.

My question was about how those saints are proclaimed - canonised…
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I touched on that in my first post. For instance, some are from the days of just popular veneration whereas others are canonized through the Vatican (at least in the Maronite Church, since our patriarchs are infatuated with being under different Congregations).

Anyway, the Byzantine saints are not necessarily the same (I mean vastly yes) but there are reasons that one group wouldn’t venerate some of the other group’s saints, but I’ll leave that to a Byzantine to expound.
 
Godric2 said:
I actually meant Eastern Catholic churches, as I think they follow a calendar similar to the Eastern orthodox equivalent don’t they.

My question was about how those saints are proclaimed - canonised…

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How was the weather on Candlemas Day?
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It is the same process throughout all twenty three Catholic sui iuris churches (revised in 1983). The Congregation for the Causes of Saints is a *universal *dicastry of the Roman Curia.
 
Celtic_Maiden said:
An Orthodox friend of mine told me that Pontius Pilate and the late Czar Nicolas were canonized in the Orthodox Church is this correct.
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Czar Nicholas and his family have indeed been canonized as martyr saints. Pontius Pilate definitely not in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
 
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