Saints

To become a priest in the Christian religion, the process can take decades, or even centuries to complete. The process by which a person is made a priest is called canonization. The procedure of canonization is as follows:

1. A local bishop investigates the candidate's life and writings for evidence of heroic virtue. The information uncovered by the bishop is sent to the Vatican.

2. A panel of theologians and the cardinals of the Congregation for Cause of Saints evaluate the candidate's life.

3. If the panel approves, the pope proclaims that the candidate is venerable, which means that the person is a role model of Catholic virtues.

4. The next step toward sainthood is beatification. Beatification allows a person to be honored by a particular group or region. In order to beatify a candidate, it must be shown that the person is responsible for a posthumous miracle. Martyrs, those who died for their religious cause, can be beatified without evidence of a miracle. On October 20th, 2003, Mother Teresa was beatified. She will now be known as Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata.

5. In order for the candidate to be considered a saint, there must be proof of a second posthumous miracle.

A very interesting saint that I liked in particular was St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco.

St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco was also called St. John the wonderworker.

He was born on the fourth of June 1896, in Adamovka, Kharkov, Russia but is also of Serb

ian origin. He is also related to an earlier saint, St. John of Tobolsk. In 1921 he moved to Belgrade where he graduated the Belgrade University. Later on St. John was known for his miracles. St. John preformed many miracles such as prophesy, clairvoyance, and healing. He also invested large amounts of money into rebuilding a local Orthodox church in Shanghai. He also repeated his act in San Francisco in the year 1962. Because he was a gr

eat Christian role model, who preformed many posthumous miracles, he was declared a saint in July, 1994, exactly 28 years after his death in July, 1966.

Question form Notes on "The Byzantine Empire"

What Empire was greater, the Greek, Roman, or Byzantine? Write a persuasive speech to support your answer.

In my Opinion, the greatest of the three civilizations would be the Byzantine Empire. Although I know very little about this civilization I believe it proved to be superior to the other two because of two reasons.

The first reason i that the Byzantine Empire can after the other two. Because Byzantium was built on top of Eastern Rome and Greece, it did not have to reconstruct any buildings, Therefore, their architecture could not have been worse that the Roman, or the Greek.

Also, my other reason for believing that the Byzantine Empire was greater than the other two is that it actually is the other tow. Byzantium is the Roman empire and it is the Greek civilization. Because Byzantium was Part of Rome before, it kept many of its lifestyle, architecture, art, etc. However, most of the population was made up of the Greeks and they also brought in their way of life. Because of this the best parts of both civilizations mixed and created the Byzantine Empire. There for Byzantium is Better than Rome, because it also had Greek teachings, schools, philosophizes, etc; and it is also better than Greece because it practices Roman law, structure of government, art, architecture, Religion, etc.