The saints change every day, remember those who were characterized by their good deeds. (GlobeLiveMedia/Jovani Perez)

Good deeds, deadly sacrifices, and even inexplicable occurrences arising from apparent divinity, are the reasons why different individuals have been beatified and canonized by the Vatican carry with him the name of saint.

Every daymarked on the calendar, commemorates the life and death of those beings, men and women, who have dedicated their lives to the same Catholic Church which has earned them the appointment.

It is the day of the saint Tuesday, March 7.

Memory of the holy martyrs Perpetua and Felicidad, who under the Emperor Septimius Severus were arrested in Carthage with other adolescent catechumens. Perpétue, a midwife in her twenties, was the mother of a breastfed child and Félicité, her servant, was then pregnant, for which, according to the laws, she could not be martyred until after giving birth and when the time came, in the middle of After the pains of childbirth, she was happy to be exposed to the wild beasts, and from the prison the two went to the amphitheater with cheerful faces, as if going to the sky.

With this character is other saints and martyrs which are also celebrated this Tuesday, March 7 as follows:

Saint Ardon Esmaragdo

Saint Eubulus

St. Gaudioso

Saint John the Baptist Nam Chong-sam

Saint Leonidas Fedorov

Saint Paul of Prusa

Saint Paul the Simple

Saint Therese Margarita Redi

General view of a mass for the canonization of 19th century British Cardinal John Henry Newman, a Swiss laywoman, an Indian nun, an Italian nun and a nun known as "Mother Teresa of Brazil"at the Vatican, October 13, 2019. (REUTERS/Remo Casilli)
A general view of a mass for the canonization of 19th century British Cardinal John Henry Newman, a Swiss laywoman, an Indian nun, an Italian nun and a nun known as ‘Mother Teresa of Brazil’, at the Vatican, on October 13, 2019. (REUTERS/Remo Casilli)

Saints are the group of people (women and men) who they are venerated by the Church when they are proclaimed saints or blessed on a certain calendar date.

On the path to canonization there are four stages: the first is to be named a servant of God, the second is to be venerable; the third step is to be blessed and finally the fourth step is to be a saint.

There beatification It can only be attained by the faithful who have died with the reputation of being saints in various places and this process can be achieved in two ways: by a cause of heroic virtues and the second is martyrdom, that is- ie if the person He died for his faith.

On another side, the process of becoming a saint This involves adding the name of the sanctified person in the canon (list of recognized saints) and with this the believing community is authorized to render public and universal worship to him, while a liturgical feast is assigned to him, altars, chapels and his power to intercede with God is recognized.

Although the Church has not given an exact figure, it is estimated that there are currently up to nine thousand recognized saints. According Roman Martyrologyupdated in 2005, the Catholic Church has at least seven thousand saintsalthough the martyrs are not counted, so many believe the figure could even be as high as 20,000.

In recent history, Pope John Paul II succeeded in canonizing 388 saints, while Pope Francis broke all records after that, to date, he canonized 898 saints, 800 of them at the same time.

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