Canonization

was athletic, and with him being able to survive being shot to death by arrows that is why he is also the patron saint of Archers. And since he was a soldier that is why he is a patron saint of soldiers as well. His feast day is January, 20. His canonization date is unknown. He was a Roman martyr, and followed Christ all his life. This saint is a model to christians today because he has proven to stand up for your faith, and to keep believing in your faith no matter who tries to stop you and get…

Martyrdom is a term that refers to the voluntary death of a person often for religious purposes or as the result of persecution. Martyrs often sacrificed their own lives for a particular cause rather than, in the case of Christians, betray their beliefs. In the Christian tradition, after their deaths many martyrs became saints. Saints are religious people who are recognized as being exceptionally holy by the Church. Yet saints and martyrs served other purposes other than just to honour the holy…

St. Maximilian Kolbe Maximilian Kolbe was a saint who lived a normal life as a child and devoted his life to God at a very young age. Raymund Kolbe was born January 8, 1894 in Zdunska Wola, in Poland. His father was German and his mother was Polish, he grew up relatively poor. In 1914, his father was captured by the Russians and killed for fighting for an independent Poland (Maximilian Kolbe Biography). Whenever Raymund was a little boy he was presented by Mary two crowns when he was praying to…

Manny miracles were reported by her grave to make the canonization possible. Saint Peter of Verona’s feast day was April 29, so Saint Catherine’s was moved to April 30. As the years went by, Saint Catherine was proven to be a more popular saint and her feast day was moved back to April 29. Pope Paul VI declared…

Saint Julia Billiart Saint Julia (Julie) Billiart was born in 1751 in Cuvilly France. After she sadly died in 1816 at the age of 64 she was made the patron saint against poverty, bodily ills, and disease. In her childhood, she was very religious, at age seven, she already knew the catechism by heart, and used to gather up her peers and tell it to them. Julie’s progress in spiritual things was so rapid that the parish priest, Father Dangicourt, allowed her to both make her first communion and…

The film Bob Roberts is a story about a Pennsylvania senatorial race between the democratic senator, Brickley Paiste, and a folk singer, Bob Roberts. In terms of genre, it is a comedic satire criticizing the problems that the American electoral system has and how exploitable it can be by candidates, such as Bob Roberts. It heavy-handedly tackles the drama and deception that a less favorable candidate can utilize to their advantage and spin the election in their favor. To add to this, the film…

attracted the scholarly attention. Scholars, such as Carol Duncan, have abandoned the idea of the art museum being a neutral container for the disposal of art and recognized the verbal and visual methods employed in representation that leads to canonization through its establishment as a secular temple . The museum became the facilitator of modern ideological fiction . The ancient rhetoric, that observes the museum as communicator or orator, trying to persuade the public of the importance of its…

like a lion, Cardinal attire and books and writing material. He`s the Patron Saint of Librarians, school children and translators. Jerome died on September 30, 420 AD and was Canonized a Saint shortly after that, there is no specific date of the Canonization. St. Jeromes feast day is September 30. Some thing’s I found really interesting are that St. Jerome seemed like a very normal man. He had a great love for God but also at times had bad thoughts in his head and many temptations but he never…

Saint Flora was a wise and humble woman who was dedicated greatly to God, she was often looked upon for advice. Saint Flora of Beaulieu died in the year 1347 in Paris, France. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any information relating to her date of canonization or beatification, but her feast day is on October 5. She is the patron saint of the abandoned, of converts, single laywomen, and victims of…

According to George P. Landow, canonization can be assigned to a relic of great books, narratives and other classical text considered by scholars to be the most important and influential texts of the western culture. It is also a method which speaks among race, ethnicity, class, and gender. Edmudson point out in his book that “it was the belief in great writing that thirty years ago made me become a teachers”(Edmudson 1). He deduces that great writing is written in English by great white…