[Marysecretary]

Prayers of the saints means folk like you and me, annalex. WE are God's saints when we receive Jesus Christ into our lives. The early saints were just common folk who prayed to God and God heard them. They weren't canonized people, they were ordinary and everyday people who believed God.

[D-fendr]

The early saints were just common folk..

who were tortured and murdered rather than deny their faith.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The early saints were just common folk who prayed to God and God heard them.

Amen. Like the early saints, we must all be prepared to account for our faith and defend it with our last breath.

"Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake." -- Matthew 5:11

"For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it." -- Mark 8:35

[annalex]

They weren't canonized people, they were ordinary and everyday people who believed God.

Read the lives of saints, especially the early martyrs, and come back to me if they still appear to you ordinary people.