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*historically known as a hallow*
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*aΒ saint is a ‘person’ who is recognized as having an ‘exceptional degree’ of [‘holiness’ / likeness to ‘god’]*
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(in ‘christianity’, the words saint and hallow have a wide variety of meanings, depending on the ‘context’ + ‘denomination’)
(the original ‘christian denotation’ was any believer who is “in christ” and in whom ‘christ’ dwells, whether in ‘heaven’ or on ‘earth’)
(in ‘anglican’, ‘roman catholic’, ‘eastern orthodox’, ‘lutheran’, and ‘oriental orthodox’ doctrine, all of their ‘faithful deceased’ in ‘heaven’ are considered to be ‘saints’, but some are considered worthy of greater ‘honor’ (or ’emulation’)Β
(‘official ecclesiastical recognition’, and consequently veneration, is given to some saints through the process of ‘canonization’ in the ‘catholic church’ or ‘glorification’ in the ‘eastern orthodox church’)
(while the english word saint originated in ‘christianity’, historians of religion now use the appellation “saint” in a more general way to refer to the state of special holiness that many religions attribute to certain people, with the jewish ‘tzadik’, the Islamic ‘walΔ«’, the hindu ‘rishi’ or sikh ‘guru’, and the buddhist ‘arhat’ or ‘bodhisattva’ also being referred to as “saints”)
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(depending on the religion, ‘saints’ are recognized either by…)
“official ecclesiastical declaration”
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“popular acclamation”
(aka “folk saint”)
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