Popular Saints

To weigh that the word "saint" remits us to an imaginary Christian, this physique it is characteristic of many other religious beliefs. The identification of the sanctity in each society, you are determined by your history. This way, inside the communities in those that live, people share a communio" "memory on your past and your beliefs. The interpersonal loops, built of that religious shared identity inside the community, they are lived and interpreted through the filter that represent the vision of the world with which each one understands the reality that surround it. This only is not good to understand each other, but rather you also constitute an offered new of faith, through the one which, you are possible to consent and to communicate with god.

This process in which a person intends to participate of the divine grace through the faith and of the devotion, you are characterized by the appearance of a necessity of confirmation. In this sense, the effectiveness of a saint is measured in two aspects. On one hand, in terms of the expectation that the devote one apparent for him; that is to say, the more faith one has in the saint, more effectiveness you are presupposed. For other, a mythical character transforms into saint when you carry out miracles, that is to say, when you solve seemingly impossible problems by means of supernatural powers.

But... How to identify them? Well, leaving of the base that a saint is a mythical character that act for the devote one, as an intermediary between the earthly (material and human) world and the celestial (immaterial and divine) one, thanks to the miracles that it carry out. The reports and the religious practices that describe the saint's revelations in issue (half human hero and at the same time, half divine), are evidence of your power. In the case of the Catholic or orthodox saints, the faithful ones interpret those myths and rituals as exemplary models to continue. This way, the believer is identified with the saint being about incorporating your behavior model, represented by the one on the way to the revelation trafficked by this. On the other hand, the playback of these reports and rituals have a superimposed feature: you refresh the faith of the devote one, at the same time that you popularize the custom of adoring the saint. However, this identification depends on the legal capacity or image that the saint transmits. Such you are the case of the religious physiques of European medieval tradition, as San Jorge or San Cristóbal, two very different fellows. While the first were a warring saint, with a tragic outcome, but with a joyful life of being able to and ascending line among your pairs, of the second is related that you were a giant rejected by your town that he/she lived isolated in the mountains being earned a living helping people to cross a river. The one expressed is one of the reasons for those that, at the present time, this type of saints has taken away from the popular preference to be changed by other nearer ones to people's history and more concerned for your concrete problems.

Those are today's popular saints, a novel and different phenomenon that, of course, you continue cohabiting with the most orthodox devotion for the Catholic saints, some of those which, they continue capturing people's majority interest, like you are the famous case of San Cayetano in Argentina, among many others.