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Sainthood   /sˈeɪnthˌʊd/   Listen
Sainthood

noun
1.
Saints collectively.
2.
The status and dignity of a saint.





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"Sainthood" Quotes from Famous Books



... mentioned in Scripture without some designation of disgrace and shame. Why he should have been chosen as a follower of Christ no one can sufficiently explain, yet there must have been in him original elements of good. There was surely the possibility of development into usefulness and sainthood, but he tried to cherish the passion of greed while companying with Jesus, and the inevitable reaction was so great and rapid that he soon degenerated into a thief and a traitor. His fate serves as a warning to all the followers of Christ and his testimony to the character ...
— The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition • Charles R. Erdman
... Plaisance, reached sainthood by making this journey and certifying to the Western Churches the persecutions of the Christians in the ...
— Peter the Hermit - A Tale of Enthusiasm • Daniel A. Goodsell
... was approved by the holy man, whose first act was to baptize the woman for fear that she was not a Christian. Let it be said to Nuflo's credit that he objected to this ceremony, arguing that she could not be a saint, with an aureole in token of her sainthood, yet stand in need of being baptized by a priest. A priest—he added, with a little chuckle of malicious pleasure—who was often seen drunk, who cheated at cards, and was sometimes suspected of putting poison on his fighting-cock's ...
— Green Mansions - A Romance of the Tropical Forest • W. H. Hudson
... acted as his servant; and how as Beccel was shaving the saint one day, there fell on him a great temptation: Why should he not cut St. Guthlac's throat, and install himself in his cell, that he might have the honour and glory of sainthood? But St. Guthlac perceived the inward temptation (which is told with the naive honesty of those half-savage times), and rebuked the offender into confession, and all went well to ...
— Prose Idylls • Charles Kingsley


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