Which Pope sainted the Apostles?

[PopeMobile]

Since I am not a Catholic please forgive me if this is something that every Catholic knows (making my question seem foolish) but I cannot find the answer and would appreciate any help or direction on the following:

My understanding is that individuals are made saint after a certain process is followed. My assumption is that the 12 Apostles didn’t need to go through that. But who proclaimed them saints, and how were their feast days determined? I’d like to be able to find a source that will tell me what Pope announced their sainthood, the year, and who determined the feast days for each of the 12.

Thanks to everyone who offers to help me on this. I’ve searched through Google and can’t for the life of me find anything on this.

 

[Eloi]

Hello,

Welcome. The first thing to be done is define our terms; according to Catholic thought, Sainst are be either believers in general (ie, the Communion of Saints) or a person in particular (ie, St. Teresa, St. Matthew); the latter is simply a person who is in heaven. In consequence, there are many people who are saints (people in heaven) who will never be canonized, yet are truely saints. Canonization is a process that the Church uses to discover if a person who has passed away is in heaven; it involves a lot of investigation into the person’s life, and verifiable miracles attributed to the person’s intercession post mortum.

You are correct to say that the Apostles did not go through the process of canonization; this is because certain saints have always been venerated as such, and are certainly in heaven: the Twelve, St. Dismis (the thief on the cross), St. Stephen. Not even all Saints are human; St. Michael, St. Gabriel, and St. Raphael are angels (remember that a Saint is a person in heaven, and angels are persons, just not humans).

A Saint’s feast-day is usually the date of that person’s death. The idea is that it is like a birth-day celebration into eternity for the saint who passed away.

 

[thistle]

Since I am not a Catholic please forgive me if this is something that every Catholic knows (making my question seem foolish) but I cannot find the answer and would appreciate any help or direction on the following:

My understanding is that individuals are made saint after a certain process is followed. My assumption is that the 12 Apostles didn’t need to go through that. But who proclaimed them saints, and how were their feast days determined? I’d like to be able to find a source that will tell me what Pope announced their sainthood, the year, and who determined the feast days for each of the 12.

Thanks to everyone who offers to help me on this. I’ve searched through Google and can’t for the life of me find anything on this.

The canonisation process is only just over 1000 years old.

 

[John_Russell_Jr]

Since I am not a Catholic please forgive me if this is something that every Catholic knows (making my question seem foolish) but I cannot find the answer and would appreciate any help or direction on the following:

My understanding is that individuals are made saint after a certain process is followed. My assumption is that the 12 Apostles didn’t need to go through that. But who proclaimed them saints, and how were their feast days determined? I’d like to be able to find a source that will tell me what Pope announced their sainthood, the year, and who determined the feast days for each of the 12.

Thanks to everyone who offers to help me on this. I’ve searched through Google and can’t for the life of me find anything on this.

… my dear friend …

… the canonisation process changes and i don’t have an exact answer for you , you may find such records were lost in the early centuries of christianity , it was customary to declare every pope a saint for a while early on , not like the canonisation process we have requiring miracles now , almost all popes were martyred early on though , i would say it was just their christian title and tradition passed it onto us ,

… a lot of the teaching of the apostles is in the church but early records are poor due to the severe roman persecutions and whilst we have this apostoloic tradition not all is written down because of this , but it is in the creeds , liturgy and many aspects of the church …

, hope this helps …

… god bless you …

… john …

 

[on_eagles_wingz]

The following scripture shows that Jesus himself appointed these 12 to preach and perform miracles in his name. Being personally appointed by the son of God I think should be reason enough to call them saints.

Mark 3:13-19 (New International Version)

The Appointing of the Twelve Apostles

Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve—designating them apostles—that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach and to have authority to drive out demons. These are the twelve he appointed: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter James son of Zebedee and his brother John (to them he gave the name Boanerges, which means Sons of Thunder); Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

ALSO, in Matthew 19:28, Jesus tells the 12 apostles that they will rule in heaven over the 12 tribes of Isreal. This is even more reason to call them saints.

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Matthew 19:28 NIV

 

[John_Russell_Jr]

… dearest friend …

… it was an apostolic tradition to call all christians saints in the beginning - we see this in the nt often , a person in grace has sanctifying grace which is the presence of god in the soul - love , this sanctifies one and makes one holy - a saint , but a canonisable saint is a saint with a capital s - and held up as an example of exemplary chritian living and these are often but not always canonised - most are unknown to us for now …

… we should call everyone in grace a saint , and encourage each other to become canonisable saints , to be a saint just be a saint !!! …

… god bless you …

… john …

 

[puzzleannie]

no pope “saints” anybody, in that he does not nor can he do anything to make them a saint. A saint is someone who is in heaven. The pope can neither put them there nor keep them out.

Since roughly the 11th century the Church has had a formal process of canonization, investigating the life and writings of a virtuous Catholic who has died, which proceeds in stages, and can result in the pope “canonizing” them, that is, adding their name to the list of saints or “canon”, having established proof of heroic virtue in their lifetime usually attested to by miracles worked after death due to their intercession. This process is documented on the CA homepage article, which is probably on a reference sticky here someplace.

Before that time saints were acclaimed, in the case of the apostles and other early Christian martyrs because of their heroic witness to the faith, and in the case of John who was not martyred, by their virtuous lives, contribution to theology and so forth, as founders of religious orders etc. These were often local figures, although some were of such importance as to be declared saints of the universal Church, as are the apostles.