"The above aren't saints!? Absurd!"
They may be saints for the RCs, not for the Orthodox. I see little to be gained by attacking them. I just don't venerate them. I suppose if one wants to debate their sanctity, one might start a new string on the subject of Western saints whom the Orthodox refuse to venerate.
Instead of getting all in a lather about these "saints", how about the Western saints who seem to have been left by the wayside but yet remain very popular with the Orthodox? One might, for example, check out the saints portrayed in the border of the Russian Orthodox icon of the Glastonbury Mother of God and many other saints of the Orthodox West.
The Glastonbury example is understandable, since the English tried to wipe Marian veneration from the face of their country.
I hope that no one takes that up, actually. There are undoubtedly an equal number of Orthodox saints that the Roman Catholics would refuse to venerate but that's a direct result of our rather obvious separation.
Besides, I think we've hijacked this Episcopalian thread enough! ;-)
Nonsense. There are Catholic churches named for the ancient British saints throughout the Isles and elsewhere in the English-speaking Catholic world. My parish in LOndon long ago was St. Ethelreda's (Aetheldreda), and my father was baptised in County Donegal in a church named after an ancient Celtic saint.