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266 quotations, each linked to the page it was checked against.
Saints through the centuriesThirteen saints, from the first martyr to a pope who died in 2005. Each is shown in his or her own words, in an early account, or in a pope's description. For three recent saints a second entry quotes the homily preached on the day of canonization.Saints of the early Church, to 313Saints who died before the Church had peace in 313, from St. Stephen to St. Peter of Alexandria: apostles, bishops, deacons, a philosopher, young mothers and a girl of twelve. Most of them were martyrs. Each is shown in Scripture, in his or her own words, in an early account, or in a pope's description. Where Scripture or an early writer records a miracle or sign connected with the saint, a second entry quotes it.Saints of the age of the Fathers, 313 to 604Twenty-nine saints who died between the peace of Constantine and the death of Pope Gregory the Great. Each is shown in his or her own words, in an early account, or in a pope's description. For seven of them a second entry quotes an early writer's account of a healing or sign.Saints of the early Middle Ages, 605 to 1050Twenty-seven saints who died between about 605 and 1049, from the first Archbishop of Canterbury to the abbot of Cluny who began the day of prayer for all the dead. Each is shown in his or her own words, in an early account, or in a pope's description. For eight of them a second entry quotes an early account of a miracle or sign. Nearly all were honoured as saints before the Church had a formal process of canonization, so those accounts were not tested by an inquiry of the modern kind.Saints of the high Middle Ages, 1050 to 1500Thirty-two saints who died between 1072 and 1487: monks and hermits, friars, a pope, a martyred archbishop, abbesses, a king, queens, a peasant girl and a father of ten. Each is shown in his or her own words, in a pope's description, or in the profile kept by the Holy See's Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. For nine of them a second entry quotes what the same sources say about a miracle, either one told from the saint's life or one examined for the canonization.Saints of reform and mission, 1500 to 1800Thirty saints, one entry being a group of eight martyrs, who died between 1500 and 1800, in the order of their deaths. They include martyrs, founders, bishops, Doctors of the Church and missionaries in Asia and the Americas. Each is shown in a pope's description or in the words of the Vatican's Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. For eleven of them a second entry, placed at the year of canonization, quotes what an official page says about miracles linked with the saint.Saints of the modern age, 1800 to todayThirty-seven canonized saints or groups of saints who died after 1800, from a widow in Maryland to a schoolboy in Milan. Each is shown in his or her own words, in a pope's words, or in the profile kept by the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints. Where the Dicastery's page describes a miracle examined for the cause, a second entry quotes that account and is placed at the year of canonization.