God's Saints And Man's Saints

Not all saints are equal.  I believe some saints are God's saints while many are man's saints.

God's saints are conduits of God.  Miracles flow through them, during their lives and after their deaths.  The miracles are plentiful, well-known to the local community and never in doubt.

Man's saints are conduits of man.  Miracles do not flow through them.  Miracles are attributed to them by the sheer will of men at the Vatican, often without sufficient proof and whatever proof that may be proffered, not much of it is beyond a reasonable doubt.  Man's saints are at best ordinary people acting as intercessors. [1]  At worst, they are irrelevant to any of the miracles that may have taken place.

By examining the life of each saint with care and without bias, one can usually conclude which saint is a saint of God and which saint is a saint by name only.


[1] Intercessors are important and I am not belittling the intersession of saints, be they man's saints or God's saints.  My main point here is the limitations of man's saints as compared to God's saints.  My secondary point is an inference, based on my opinion, that there maybe saints that are not worth the title, whether well-founded or not.  In terms of intercessors, our most effective intercessor is none other than the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God.