saint: Media

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How to become a saint: Canonization explained
Step one: Be Catholic.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

St. Matthias
Saint Matthias, tempera on wood by the workshop of Simone Martini, c. 1317–19;...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943 (43.98.11); www.metmuseum.org
Saints in stained glass
Stained glass panel showing several saints.
© Denis Kelly/Dreamstime.com
St. Jude
A photo of St. Jude as the patron saint of lost causes.
© DeAgostini/Getty Images
Carlo Acutis
Photo of the beatification ceremony of Carlo Acutis.
© Vatican Pool/Getty Images
Virgin of Guadalupe and St. Juan Diego
The Virgin of Guadalupe (left) and St. Juan Diego.
(L-R) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Kelvin Davis through the 2014 Collectors Committee (M.2014.91), www.lacma.org; © Smiley N. Pool—Houston Chronicle/Getty Images
St. Christoper and St. James the Greater
Illustration of St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child (left) and statue of St....
(L-R) © British Library Board (Add. 38126, f.137v); from the British Library Archive; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, The Cloisters Collection, 1969 (69.88)
St. Brigid of Ireland
Statue of St. Brigid of Ireland.
© Thomas Hummel
Joan of Arc
Painting of St. Joan of Arc.
World History Archive/Alamy
St. Valentine
Illustration of St. Valentine healing a man with epilepsy.
Wellcome Library, London
St. Kateri Tekakwitha and St. Francis of Assisi
Statue of St. Kateri Tekakwitha (left) and image of St. Francis of Assisi.
(L-R) © Thomas H. Mitchell—500px/Getty Images; © Heritage Images—Hultion Fine Art Collection/Getty Images
St. Martín de Porres and Mother Cabrini
Statue of St. Martín de Porres (left) and photo of Mother Cabrini.
(L-R) © Jose Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro; Archive Photos/Getty Images
St. Anthony of Padua
Image of St. Anthony of Padua with the Christ Child.
© Zvonimir Atletic/Shutterstock.com
St. Gertrude of Nivelles
Two images of St. Gertrude of Nivelles.
(L-R) Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bequest of Howard A. Noble (64.11.6), collection.carnegieart.org; © British Library Board (Stowe 17, f.34), Archive of the British Library
St. Paul the Apostle
St. Paul preaching the gospel, detail of a 12th-century mosaic in the Cappella Palatina,...
Alinari/Art Resource, New York