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Veneration of Saints

Honoring the holy dead and asking their prayers, a practice the traditions sharply dispute

Veneration of saints means honoring holy persons who have died in Christ and asking their intercession. The Martyrdom of Polycarp reflects early reverence for martyrs. The traditions differ: Catholics and Orthodox practice it, distinguishing veneration (dulia) from the worship (latria) due to God alone, and ground it in later conciliar teaching. Most Protestants, especially the Reformers, rejected or sharply restricted it, urging that prayer be addressed to God through Christ alone.

How it traveled

  1. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  2. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
    explains
  3. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
    explains
  4. Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It
    Geneva · 1564
    challenges

Key passages(20)

Cariyāpiṭaka · The Pāli Canon (Tipiṭaka)

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Therīgāthā · The Pāli Canon (Tipiṭaka)

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One Hundred Aphorisms, · John Calvin

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Against Vigilantius · Jerome

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The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch · John Chrysostom

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The Life of S. Hilarion · Jerome

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