Talk:Stephen of Perm
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An entry from Stephen of Perm appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 17 March 2006. |
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[edit] Canonization as a Catholic Saint
As strange as it may seem, Stephen of Perm is also considered a saint by the Catholic Church!
Not only that, he's venerated by Catholics of the Latin and the Byzantine Churches! For documentation, I direct the readers here: http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0426.htm#step
More scholarly references include the following: D. Attwater's The Golden Book of Eastern Saints, J. Bentley's A Calendar of Saints: The Lives of the Principal Saints of the Christian Year, and especially Butler's Lives of the Saints.
I don't know how to explain this phenomena, save to say that it does occur periodically in the Church calendar that saints formally outside a denominational communion somehow come to be recognized as saints. For example, some Arian and Monophysite martyrs are venerated by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Oh, well; however he got there, he made the cut, and today is his feast day amongst Catholics and Orthodox!DominvsVobiscvm 07:05, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
