Why are this people not officially saints?

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Hildegard de Bingen
Thomas de Kempis
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
Pere Jacques de Jesus
 
There are many reasons, and not all of those you listed haven’t been declared saints for various reasons, and their saintliness may not be the issue. If they don’t/didn’t have a popular following or anyone willing to put forward their cause, such as a religious order, they may simply have been overlooked.

Being named a saint isn’t an automatic thing in the Church, especially since the Church centralized the process. Have you looked into the lives of these people to see what, if anything, has been done to bring their causes before the Church? That might help you understand why they haven’t been canonized.
 
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Hildegard de Bingen
Thomas de Kempis
Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection
Pere Jacques de Jesus
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Well, I don’t know about the others, but as I understand the story with Thomas de Kempis, is that during the canonization process, they exhumed his body and found that he had been buried alive. This sometimes happened in those days, where they thought a comatose person was actually dead. Anyway, what they discovered was that Thomas Kempis had scratched and clawed at the cover of his coffin. His fingers were raw to the bone. So, they feared that perhaps he committed the sin of despair, and denied him canonization.

And I thought getting through Marine Corps boot camp was tough. 😃

Jim
 
Hildegard von Bingen seems to have been quite unique. I love her music, but she was also a mystic, seer and popular superior. Four popes started the process, in the 150 years following her death, but it doesn’t seem to have been completed. She is in the Martyrology, Feast on the 17th or 18th of September (depending where). I don’t think she will be forgotten, especially by anyone hears her music.
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JimR-OCDS said:
Well, I don’t know about the others, but as I understand the story with Thomas de Kempis, is that during the canonization process, they exhumed his body and found that he had been buried alive. This sometimes happened in those days, where they thought a comatose person was actually dead. Anyway, what they discovered was that Thomas Kempis had scratched and clawed at the cover of his coffin. His fingers were raw to the bone. So, they feared that perhaps he committed the sin of despair, and denied him canonization.

And I thought getting through Marine Corps boot camp was tough. 😃

Jim
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That is awful! I love his writings and will pray for the repose of his soul tonight.
 
Hildegard of Bingen DOES have an official feast (memorial) day, celebrated in parts of Germany, which is on September 17 :yup: :getholy: yet has never been officially canonised.

I love her, got some of her music which is spinetinglingly beautiful.
 
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