Canonized saints

Today, in general, the meaning of the word «holy» is considerably limited. It belongs as a title to those whose Church publicly worshiped. We can privately call for an intercession anyone who has died in God’s grace and who is, we hope, in heaven. We pray for the peace of soul of deceased parents, relatives, acquaintances. However, few people realize that we can and should pray to them as well. Death natural it interrupts human bodily relationships, but perfects spiritual ones, especially true love. Of course, we can’t picture exhibit their acquaintances in the church on the altar. Church  has the right to verify the virtues of one who is given to others as a model of life in God and as an intercessor with God in eternity. Called the canonization process is now governed by legal norms which, as everyone acknowledges, are very strict. In the old days, local service and folk respect were enough. However, it is still not critical enough.
The victory of orthodoxy over iconoclasm, meant, of course, a great flourishing of respect to the saints in the Christian East. It can really be said that religion and its manifestations have been enriched emotionally, artistically, culturally. The liturgical calendar has penetrated into folk life with proverbs, sayings, folk songs and scenes. However, they made some mistakes in the calendar of saints and inaccuracies. It is understandable that the new martyrology (list of worshiped saints according to the calendar) is to correspond to historical truth. The objection that the Church has long kept in the list the names of saints who did not exist, it is not as serious as it seems. After all prayer to one saint reaches out to God and to the whole heavenly Church. God then looks at man’s heart and purpose. She certainly doesn’t blame her grandmother for not studying history springs before praying for the harvest while begging for the intercession of some strange saint of centuries calendar. The history of the Church is like any other history. Legend and reputation easily complement the image, which of the guaranteed messages does not it is always obvious. In the old days, the so-called apocrypha, falsified gospels and accounts of the life of Christ, Virgin Mary, apostles. That we don’t believe in fairy tales and national legends, does not mean that we despise them. They are an expression of the soul of the people and, as J. Zeyer used to say, their “inner truth,” which is often truer than the truth of external facts’. Even the legendary lives of the saints are such an expression of the soul of the people. Note how nape *, the church calendar penetrated into rural life in the form of proverbs and sayings. St. Gregor, throws a scythe into rye, st. Martin arrives at a white horse etc. Today, they no longer correspond to the way of life or the new reform of the church calendar. Nevertheless, they show us something to strive for again: a living sense of the “communion of the saints,” the unity of the Church on earth and in heaven. In fairy tales, Christ the Lord walked with St. Peter after ours country. It is just a popular expression of a fact that is unspeakably more beautiful.