Sentences with phrase «after sainthood»

For a few who hanker after sainthood, the vision of such perfection may shine like a halo.

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Beatification is the last step before sainthood and requires someone to have performed one miracle after his or her death.

A convert to Catholicism after being a protestant missionary in Latin America, it was during his RCIA class that Leonard was struck by the profound importance of aiming for sainthood.

Heck, some of the stuff I have read about him after he became worm food almost anoints him into «sainthood» of a sort.

The now deceased Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa in October 2003 and waived the requirement of waiting five years after a person's death to pursue the path to sainthood and opened Mother Teresa's Cause of Canonization less than two years after her death.

Olav Haraldsson was the Norwegian king who is often credited with bringing Christianity to Norway and whose sainthood, first proclaimed in 1031, a year after his death, was confirmed by Pope Alexander III in 1164.

That's how I could imagine a girl named Antonia Lucia Labella writing the Vatican every month of her life since she was seven, questing after living sainthood.