Canonized saints.

Today, in general, the meaning of the word “holy.” considerably limited. It belongs as a title to those by the Church publicly worshipped. We can privately call for mediation of whoever died in God’s grace and who we hope is in heaven. We pray for the peace of the soul of the deceased parents, relatives, acquaintances. However, few people realize that we can and should pray for them as well. Death naturally 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.
The Church has the right to verify the virtues of the one who gives himself to others as a role model in God and as an intercessor with God in eternity. The so-called 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, the image of the rectum, meant, of course, an extraordinary flourishing of respect to the saints in the Christian East. It can be said that religion and its manifestations have also been enriched emotionally, artistically, and culturally. The liturgical calendar has penetrated folklife with proverbs, sayings, folk songs, and scenes.
However, they made some mistakes in the saints’ calendar and inaccuracies. Understandably, the new martyrology (list of worshipped saints according to the calendar) corresponds to historical truth. The objection that the Church has long kept even the names of saints who did not exist is not as severe as it might seem. After all, prayer to one saint reaching to God and the whole heavenly Church. God then looks at man’s heart and purpose. She certainly doesn’t blame her grandmother for not studying history spring’s before, she prayed for the harvest and begged for the intercession of some strange saint of the century calendar.
The history of the Church is like any other history. Legend and reputation easily complement the picture, which of the guaranteed reports, it is not always entirely clear. In the old days, the so-called Apocrypha, falsified gospels, and accounts of the life of Christ, Virgin Mary, the apostles. We don’t believe in fairy tales, and national legends do not mean that we despise them. They are the expression of the people’s soul and have, as J. Zeyer said, their “inner truth,” which is often truer.
Then the truth of external facts. Even the legendary lives of the saints are such an expression of the soul of the people. Let’s notice how the church calendar penetrated rural life in the form of proverbs and sayings. St. Gregor, St. Margaret 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. Still, they show us something to strive for again: a living sense of “communion of saints,” the unity of the Church on earth and in heaven. In fairy tales, Christ the Lord walked with St. Peter after our homeland, and it is just a popular expression of a reality that is unspeakably more beautiful.