Saints Key Vocab.

Question 1

Blessed

Answer 1

Tilted bestowed on a person who has been beatified and accorded limited veneration.

Question 2

Congregation for the cause of saints

Answer 2

Department of the Roman Curia, that makes recommendations to the pope on beatifications and canonizations.

Question 3

Miracle

Answer 3

Event that can be witnessed by the senses but is in apparent contradiction to the laws of nature.

Question 4

Petitioner

Answer 4

Party initiating action in cannon law

Question 5

Canonization

Answer 5

Formal process by which the Church declares a person to be worthy of veneration universally

Question 6

Postulator

Answer 6

Person appointed to guide and oversee the cause

Question 7

Saint

Answer 7

Title given to someone who has been formally canonized by their Church

Question 8

Servant of God

Answer 8

Title given to a candidate for sainthood whose cause is still under investigation

Question 9

Venerable

Answer 9

Another honorific given to a candidate for sainthood whose cause has not yet reached the beatification stage but whose heroic virtue has been declared by the pope.

Question 10

Beatification

Answer 10

Second stage in the process of proclaiming a person a saint