Whats the difference between titles?

[Tx3bro]

What is the difference between the title’s Saint and Blessed?

 

[Big_Feet]

A proven miracle through the intersession of the Blessed

 

[jpjd]

From HERE.

"Stages on the road to sainthood

Usually, the process of recognizing a saint starts no earlier than five years after a person’s death. Usually, the potential saint’s pastor presents the case to the bishop. Specific stages are met on the path to being declared a saint:

• **Servant of God: **As soon as the person is accepted for consideration, she’s called a Servant of God.
• **Venerable: **After the Vatican Congregation for the Causes of Saints determines that the servant of God lived a life of heroic virtue, she is granted the title of venerable. *Heroic virtue *doesn’t mean a person was perfect or sinless, but that she worked aggressively to improve herself spiritually and never gave up trying to be better and grow in holiness.
• **Blessed: **After the Church establishes one miracle, the venerable person’s cause is presented to the pope to see whether he deems her worthy of being called *blessed. *This step is called *beatification *and is the next-to-last step.
• ***Saint: **Another miracle and the blessed person’s cause is presented to the pope again for his judgment. If he determines that the evidence is clear and that contrary reports aren’t credible, he may initiate the canonization procedure. If all goes well, the candidate is publicly recognized as a saint."

 

[PJM]

=Tx3bro;10245367]What is the difference between the title’s Saint and Blessed?

“Blessed” is in route; in the Process required by the Church to be formally called a “Saint”.

Typically two Miracles are required, so God has an active affirmation of the process.

When one is declared “Blessed” one of the two miracles has been “accepted” [PROVEN] and the Church waits for the second affitrmation.

At least this is MY UNDERSTANDING of the process Other complex conditions apply as well.

Being a “saint” is MUCH easier than be Ofically identifed as a Saint.

 

[Clare2412]

The term “Blessed” refers to someone whose cause for canonization has been accepted by the Vatican and that subsequent research has found one miracle due to the intercession of that person. At that point, they are given the title “Blessed.”

Prior to this, when their cause has been accepted and the heroic virtue of their life has been established, but no miracle attributable to their intercession has been established, they are refered to as “Servant of God.”

The term “Saint” is given to someone who has aleady achieved the status of “Blessed” and to whose intercession a second miracle has been established.

There are three stages in the canonization process:

1. Servant of God = Cause accepted by the Vatican; heroic virtue established
2. Blessed = Cause accepted; heroic virtue established; one miracle attributable to their
   intercession established
3. Saint = Cause accepted; heroic virtue established; two miracles attributable to their
   intercession established

Some causes that are accepted take a very long time to achieve Blessed or Saint status. Look at the history of St. Thomas More or St. Damian of Molokai. Others move forward very rapidly. St. Francis of Assisi is a good example of this.

There are lots of books on the saints, if you are interested. Butler’s Lives of the Saints is a classic.

Via con Dios!
Clare

 

[St_Hilary]

What is the difference between the title’s Saint and Blessed?

 

[St_Hilary]

A saint has gone through the process of Rome and different aspects to include if she or he is reallhy a saint; however, the Vatican must have believed in her miracles to be given that title.

Blessed means that this person is still going through ann examination and the good things they have done and to meet the requirements of the Vatican to be called a Saint.

God bless you.

 

[jpjd]

“Blessed” is in route; in the Process required by the Church to be formally called a “Saint”.

Typically two Miracles are required, so God has an active affirmation of the process.

When one is declared “Blessed” one of the two miracles has been “accepted” [PROVEN] and the Church waits for the second affitrmation.

At least this is MY UNDERSTANDING of the process Other complex conditions apply as well.

Being a “saint” is MUCH easier than be Ofically identifed as a Saint.

Two miracles are no longer required, only one.

 

[Genesis315]

Others have provided the procedural differences, but there is an important general distinction between the two. Beatification–assigning a person the title of blessed–is an indult or permission for certain locations or religious orders to officially treat the person like a saint and to venerate them “publically” (ie by “publically” I mean celerating the person in the Mass and on the liturgical calendar, etc.). Canonization (naming the person a Saint) is prescriptive judgment that requires everyone to treat the person as a saint.

In sum, beatifications are local and permissive, while canonizations are universal and prescriptive.