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Hi everyone,

Does anyone know where I can find a list of Eastern Catholics who have been canonized by the Pope?

Thanks for any info!

God Bless,

Jenny

For the New-Martyrs beatified by the Pope in Ukraine, check out www.papalvist.org.ua [papalvist.org.ua] and www.vatican.va [vatican.va] (on this site you will have to search for the right page).

The only Eastern Catholic Saints to be canonized by the Pope are St. Josaphat of Polotsk and St. Charbel of Lebanon.

There are other saints that are particullarly important to us, such as Sts. Nilus and Bartholomew of Grotaferrata, St. Clement, St. Vladimir, St. Olga, Sts. Anthony and Theodosius and all the other saints of the Kievan Caves Lavra, Sts. Sergius and Herman of Valaam. Basically, any saint that was canonized or revered as a saint before 1452 (or whenever the Council of Florence was) in our equivalent Orthodox Churches can be venerated by us. Also, anyoine who was martyred can be venerated by us. So I guess that St. Phillip of Moscow is also alright.

Daniil

[ 07-16-2002: Message edited by: Daniil ]

Thanks so much for the info.

God Bless!

Jenny

Dear Jenny,

The "Blesseds" are also counted as "Saints" among Easterners too. (They are, in fact, saints whose cult extends to a locale or region only).

There are the two Blesseds Paul Goydich OSBM and Methodius Tricka. There are the Bulgarian Martyrs.

There is the Armenian Catholic bishop beatified as well and the Ethiopian Catholic martyr, Blessed Gabra-Michael.

St Constantine XI the New Martyr actually counts as a Catholic saint, even though he was canonized by the Orthodox, since we know that on the morning before he set off to fight the Turks, he received Communion from a Roman Catholic Cardinal.

Unless the Orthodox had Cardinals then . . .

Alex

There is also Saint Rafka, a Maronite saint who was canonized last year.

http://www.stmaron.org/rafka.html

and Blessed Nimatulah Hardini

http://www.hardini.org/


There are pictures of some Romanian Greek Catholics whose causes for beatification are pending located here:

http://www.greek-catholic.ro/media/galeria/next.asp

Hope this helps,
Stefan

Eastern catholic churches have a lot of saints. a lot of them were saints before the schism, but they ahve not restored the veneration of those saints because of latinization.

It's sad that the Romanian Catholic site includes the biographies of a lot of italian saints, even those who are unknown for many catholics, but you can't find anything about Saint Parascheva.

And Blessed Teodor Romzha...

(p.s., it's Trc~ka - Blessed Metod Trc~ka, C.SS.R.)

Go Lemko!!!

Was he Bohemian or Moravian?

I seems to me like most of the Bulgars were Roman Catholic. Am I correct?

Stefan-Ivan

[ 07-16-2002: Message edited by: Stefan-Ivan ]

Information on the Armenian Bishop, Blessed Ignazio Maloyan mentioned above by Alex, can be found here

http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/saintm2u.htm

http://au.geocities.com/yesarka/maloyan.html

Blessed Kuriakose Elias Chavara and Blessed Alphonsa, Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.

Dear Lemko,

I wasn't suggesting St Theodore Romzha wasn't Carpatho-Ruthenian - only that he was beatified, along with the Russian Leonid Fyodorov - at the same time as the others, including two Latin, saints in Ukraine.

The point you raise is interesting since even our very own Catholicos Mor Ephrem is in on this .

Is there some sort of imperative for Eastern Catholic Churches to venerate ALL the Eastern Catholic saints declared so by Rome and belonging to other Particular Churches?

I noticed on the Ruthenian Calendar that only St Theodore Romzha was listed while the other 27 Eastern Catholic martyrs and saints were not (am I correct?).

Why wouldn't they be on the Ruthenian Calendar? Perhaps it is a stretch to expect St Rafka to be there, but the other East Slavic saints?

Are you guys more nationalistic than Ukies and Russkies?

Alex

Thanks to all who replied. It's wonderful to learn about these people!

A question: Is any saint who was part of the Church before the schism venerated by both Orthodox and Catholic--like St. Methodius? Is St. Ignatius of Antioch venerated by the Orthodox Church?

God Bless,

Jenny

Dear Jenny,

The study of saints is, for me, THE most fascinating branch of religious studies!

All the saints before the Schism of 1054 are venerated by both Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

There are exceptions only because the cult of so many saints in both East and West are local or regional in nature.

There are also "interesting" examples of "cross-veneration" (like "cross-pollination" only involving saints . . .).

On the island of Rhodes, the Greek Orthodox there honour a Roman Catholic Crusader, one "St John" who died fighting the Turks.

He is completely unknown in the Roman Catholic West!

There are also other cases of the East venerating saints who were of the West, but who are not recognized as saints in the West.

Pope St Liberius is honoured as a full saint in the East, and he is completely ignored in the West.

In any study of saints, we need to remember the local character of their recognition.

Even with the great number of canonizations and beatifications of His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the vast majority of the saints are local ones.

The Pope recently beatified a married couple in Rome.

But their public veneration is limited ONLY to the City of Rome.

There is also the interesting case of "St Lucifer of Cagliari."

He argued with the Pope of his day, in ST Hilary's time, and so died excommunicated for his efforts.

He was locally canonized and churches were built in his honour throughout Sicily.

When Rome found this out, it put a stop to his veneration, leaving it local for Sicily where he is still honoured.

Bl. Charlemagne was likewise canonized by an antipope! The Catholic Church has left his cult local for the city of Aachen.

Alex

Slava Jesu Kristu,

Wait a minute - I thought that for Eastern Catholics, any recognized Saint by any Orthodox or Catholic Church, whether before or after 1054AD, can be venerated. In my opinion, once they are proclaimed a saint, they are a saint and worthy of veneration. Otherwise, a large part of my iconostasis at home will have to be redone.

Dmitri

Glory to Jesus Christ!

The revision of the calendar which will come out in the new Liturgikon contains all of the Easterners canonized/beatified by Rome, whether they were Rusyns or no.

J. Michael Thompson