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Latter-day Saint :: Latter-day saint () A Mormon; -- the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints being the name assumed by the whole body of Mormons.

Halloween :: Halloween (n.) The evening preceding Allhallows or All Saints' Day.

Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor..

Helena :: Helena (n.) See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint..

Sanctimony :: Sanctimony (n.) Holiness; devoutness; scrupulous austerity; sanctity; especially, outward or artificial saintliness; assumed or pretended holiness; hypocritical devoutness..

Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..

Allhallows :: Allhallows (n.) All Saints' Day, November 1st..

Bollandists :: Bollandists (n. pl.) The Jesuit editors of the Acta Sanctorum, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work..

Jainism :: "Jainism (n.) The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each..

Saintlike :: Saintlike (a.) Resembling a saint; suiting a saint; becoming a saint; saintly.

Sainted :: Sainted (a.) Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious.

Legend :: Legend (n.) A story respecting saints; especially, one of a marvelous nature..

Saintliness :: Saintliness (n.) Quality of being saintly.

Hierolatry :: Hierolatry (n.) The worship of saints or sacred things.

Avowry :: Avowry (n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

Saintdom :: Saintdom (n.) The state or character of a saint.

Sainted :: Sainted (a.) Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.

Canonization :: Canonization (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.

Aureole :: Aureole (n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence..

Relic :: Relic (n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body..

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