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do you read anything before commenting? The list of saints is by no means and never portrayed as being the only list of those who are saved. The saints we know of are heroes/heroines of the faith — role models who followed the great role model - Christ. There are plenty of those who are not known of — and the Church knows that, but these canonized saints are the ones we do know of

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btw, the Catholic Church are not the only to acknowledge / canonize saints -- the Eastern Orthodox, Copts, Syriacs, Ethiopians all canonize saints

And Lutherans and Anglicans recognize some of the saints as defined in Catholicism