Saints are special Christians who lived very
holy lives. Some of them were killed for their
Christian faith.
Churches such as the Catholic Chruch declare
people saints after their death in a process
called canonisation.
Below Some
Saints Of Christians
:
Saint
Andrew
Saint Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland,
Romania and Russia and was Christ's first disciple.
Saint Bede
The Venerable Bede was a great Anglo-Saxon scholar.
Saint Columba
Columba founded a monastery on the island of Iona.
Saint David
Saint David, or Dewi Sant as he's called in the
Welsh language, is the patron saint of Wales.
He was one of the early saints who helped to spread
Christianity among the pagan Celtic tribes of
Western Britain.
Saint Edward
the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was a man of great prayer
- rather like a crowned monk. He was hailed throughout
his life as a gentle, loyal and devoted king.
Saint George
Saint George is the patron saint of England. He's
popularly identified with England and English
ideals of honour, bravery and gallantry, but actually
he wasn't English at all and very little is known
about the real George.
Saint
Lucy
Lucy is the patron saint of the blind. Her feast
day is the 13th December. She was a virgin martyr
who lived in Sicily during the third century.
Saint Ninian
Ninian founded the first monastery in Scotland.
Saint Patrick
Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland,
credited by myths with bringing Christianity to
the Irish and driving the snakes out of Ireland.
Saint Paul
Paul, originally called Saul of Tarsus, was famously
converted on the road to Damascus.
Saint
Peter
The fisherman who became the right-hand man of
Jesus himself, the leader of the early church
and a father of the faith.
Saint
Pio of Pietrelcina
Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, an Italian stigmatist
and mystic, is the patron saint of stress relief
and the January blues.
Saint
Valentine
Saint Valentine's Day embraces a time of year
that is historically associated with love and
fertility. At least three different Saint Valentines,
all martyrs, are connected with this day.