medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 10/17/11, Christopher Crockett wrote:
> From: Terri Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley (d. 1555) Latimer and Ridley were English
> (Anglican) bishops in the reign of Edward VI and leaders of the Protestant
> movement in England. Arrested when Mary I came to the throne, first efforts
> were made to convert them back to Catholicism, then to make them look bad in
> public debates, then they were imprisoned, and finally burned together in
> Oxford.
>
>
> so, they were made *catholic* saints?
>
Well, yes, if you accept the formula that the Church of England and the other churches in the Anglican Communion are both catholic and reformed.
> because they "looked bad" in public debates?
>
> does doing that count as a miracle, one sufficient for canonization?
>
Anglican churches do not formally canonize persons whom they admit to their calendars of saints. Requirement of a miracle in order to establish one as a saint in heaven is at least very largely a practice of the church of Rome. And it would be wrong to suppose that a notice in this honourable list's "Feasts and Saints of the Day" (previously "Saints of the Day"; previously "Feasts") implies formal veneration within the latter church let alone a previous declaration of sanctity for said body.
Though the list's usually observed upper chronological limit of 1550 renders exceptional within this context notices for Protestant martyrs of the later sixteenth century (e.g. Latimer and Ridley), notices have been provided for such at least chiefly Orthodox saints of the central and later Middle Ages as Eustratius of the Kievan Caves, Nikon the Dry, Eustathius of Thessaloniki, Simeon the Myrrh-Flowing (Simeon Nemanja), Helen of Anjou, Gregory Palamas, and Nicholas Cabasilas (I exclude Sava of Serbia, as Rome has authorized his cult for Roman Catholics in at least Croatia and Serbia, and Sergius of Radonezh, as he now appears in the Roman Martyrology). Whereas these are all saints of Chalcedonian persuasion, it is surely possible that in time there will also be notices for non-Chalcedonians venerated only in Oriental Orthodox churches, e.g. Timothy II of Alexandria (Timothy "Aelurus").
Best,
John Dillon
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