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Apostle
A disciple sent out by Christ to preach: first of all the Twelve and the Apostle Paul; Peter and Paul are called the chief apostles.
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Apostle of the Seventy
One of the seventy disciples sent out to preach besides the Twelve — among them the evangelists Mark and Luke.
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Blessed
One word with two senses: the title of the holy fools, and an honorific for certain ancient teachers such as Blessed Augustine.
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Canonization
The Church's decision that a person may be openly venerated as a saint — it does not make anyone holy, it testifies to holiness already evident.
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Confessor
One who openly confessed the faith under persecution and suffered for it — prison, exile, torture — but survived.
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Equal-to-the-Apostles
A saint who brought a whole people to Christ — the apostles' work done centuries after the apostles.
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Fool for Christ
A saint who deliberately took on the appearance of madness — renouncing even a good name, and free to tell the powerful what no one else would.
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Forefather
An Old Testament righteous one who lived before Christ, above all His ancestor after the flesh; women of this rank are called foremothers.
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Great Martyr
A martyr whose sufferings were especially long and severe and whose veneration is widespread — George, Panteleimon, Barbara, Catherine.
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Hierarch
A sainted bishop. The word applies to hierarchs only — Nicholas the Wonderworker, Basil the Great, John Chrysostom.
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Martyr
Literally a witness: a Christian who could have renounced the faith and lived, and did not.
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Myrrh-bearers
The women who came at dawn to the tomb to anoint the body and were the first to learn of the Resurrection.
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New Martyr
Those who suffered for the faith under the Soviet persecutions; their joint commemoration is the Synaxis of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
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Passion-bearer
A saint killed not for the faith but innocently, usually by fellow Christians, and meeting death without resistance in imitation of Christ.
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Prophet
Not a foreteller of the future but one who speaks on God's behalf. The prophets are saints of the Old Testament; the last of them is John the Forerunner.
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Right-Believing
The rank of princes and rulers glorified for holding the right faith and governing by it — literally 'rightly believing'.
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Righteous
A sainted layperson — one who lived an ordinary life in the world, in a family and at work, and lived it holily.
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Synaxis of saints
Here 'synaxis' means neither a building nor a council of bishops but the joint commemoration of a whole group of saints.
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Unmercenary
A sainted physician who healed without payment — the word means literally 'without silver'.
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Venerable
A sainted monastic. The Slavonic word means 'most like' — one who has recovered the likeness of God in which man was created.
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Venerable Martyr
A monk or nun who died a martyr's death — not the same as a hieromartyr, where the mark is holy orders rather than monastic tonsure.