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
- City of GodHippo Regius · 430explains
- Reply to Faustus the ManichæanHippo Regius · 430explains
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274explains
- Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from ItGeneva · 1564challenges
Key passages(20)
City of God · Augustine of Hippo
One Hundred Aphorisms, · John Calvin
Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator · John Calvin
John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith · John of Damascus
City of God · Augustine of Hippo
Reply to Faustus the Manichæan · Augustine of Hippo
The Homilies on the Statues to the People of Antioch · John Chrysostom
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Selections from the Letters of St. Ambrose · Ambrose of Milan
The Canons of the Councils of Ancyra, Gangra, Neocæsarea, Antioch and Laodicea, which Canons were Accepted and Received by the Ecumenical Synods · The Ecumenical Councils
Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
Book Third. the Mode of Obtaining the Grace of Christ. the Benefits It Confers, and the Effects Resulting from It · John Calvin
On Modesty. · Tertullian: Part Fourth
The Church History of Eusebius · Eusebius of Caesarea