Veneration ( Latin veneratio, Greek δουλεία, douleia ), or veneration of saints, is a special act of honoring a saint, a person who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or holiness.

Veneration of saints is practiced, formally or informally, by adherents of some branches of all major religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism.

Veneration of saints in Islam is especially common in the Sufi branch, though there are many local customs in different parts of the world, especially in southeast Asia, where saints are honored and venerated.

* Veneration of the saints

Veneration of saints and shrines is opposed by some Islamic groups, particularly those ascribing to the Salafi or Ahle Hadith methodology.

Veneration of the two saints dates to the 5th century.

Veneration of, and prostration toward, the Buddha image also reminds practitioners ( emphatically in the Mahayana ) of their own fundamental intrinsic Buddha-nature ( Tathagatagarbha ).

Veneration of Saints is not contrary to God ’ s commandments as revealed in the Scriptures ; but their deification is condemned by the Church as a monstrous blasphemy.

Veneration of Our Lady of the Good Death came to have social significance as it allowed slaves to gather, maintain their religiosity in a hostile environment and shape a corporate instrument for defending and valuing of individuals.

Veneration in Chile is said to have begun when a devotee of Expeditus ( or locally, San Expedito ) brought an image of him to Viña del Mar, one of the most popular beach cities of Chile.

Francis Robinson “ The Veneration of Teachers in Islam: its Modern Significance ’, History Today, XXX, 1980, 22-5, ‘ Abd al-bari ’ and Farangi Mahall ’ in B. Lewis et al.

Veneration of Anthony in the East is more restrained.

Veneration of Serapis and Isis, who were identified with Jupiter and Minerva respectively, was especially prominent.

Veneration of a local Leto is attested at Phaistos ( where it is purported that she gave birth to Apollo and Artemis at the islands known today as the Paximadia ( also known as Letoai in ancient Crete ) and at Lato, which bore her name .< ref > Noted by R. F.

Veneration of Njörðr survived into 18th or 19th century Norwegian folk practice, where the god is recorded as Njor and thanked for a bountiful catch of fish.

Veneration of Njörðr survived into 18th or 19th century Norwegian folk practice, as recorded in a tale collected by Halldar O. Opedal from an informant in Odda, Hordaland, Norway.

* Seleznyov, Nikolai N., " Nestorius of Constantinople: Condemnation, Suppression, Veneration, With special reference to the role of his name in East-Syriac Christianity " in: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 62: 3-4 ( 2010 ): 165-190.

At the age of 51, Nichiren inscribed the Object of Veneration in Buddhism, the Gohonzon ," never before known " as he described it.

Veneration of the dead is based on the belief that the deceased, often family members, have a continued existence and / or possess the ability to influence the fortune of the living.

An exception is the Week of the Cross ( the Fourth Week ), during which the theme of the preceding Sunday — the Veneration of the Cross — is repeated throughout the week.

The Veneration of the Cross is celebrated on the third Sunday.

This week is celebrated as a sort of afterfeast of the Veneration of the Cross, during which some of the hymns from the previous Sunday are repeated each day.

Veneration of Huitzilopochtli, the personification of the sun and of war, was central to the religious, social and political practices of the Mexicas.

The liturgy consists of three parts: the Liturgy of the Word, the Veneration of the Cross, and Holy Communion.

* Seleznyov, Nikolai N., " Nestorius of Constantinople: Condemnation, Suppression, Veneration, With special reference to the role of his name in East-Syriac Christianity " in: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 62: 3-4 ( 2010 ): 165-190.

Veneration, known as dulia in classical theology, is the honor due to the excellence of a created person.

Veneration of Shango enables — according to Yoruba belief — a great deal of power and self-control.

Veneration of Alexander Nevsky as a saint began soon after his death.

Veneration towards those who were considered holy began in early Christianity, with the martyrs first being given special honor.

Veneration, known as dulia in classical Catholic theology, is the honor due to the excellence and a created person.

Veneration of icons through proskynesis was codified in the Seventh Ecumenical Council during the Byzantine Iconoclast controversy, in which St. John of Damascus was pivotal.

Hippolytus of Rome ( d. 235 ) is commonly considered to be the earliest antipope, as he headed a separate group within the Church in Rome against Pope Callixtus I. Hippolytus was reconciled to Callixtus's second successor, Pope Pontian, and both he and Pontian are honoured as saints by the Roman Catholic Church with a shared feast day on 13 August.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

The two greatest saints of among them are St. Catherine of Siena and St. Rose of Lima, who lived ascetic lives in their family homes, yet both had widespead influence in their societies.

While there, Julian became acquainted with two men who later became both bishops and saints: Gregory of Nazianzus and Basil the Great ; in the same period, Julian was also initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries, which he would later try to restore.

The political realm is no realm for saints ; a politician ought to marry the ethic of ultimate ends and the ethic of responsibility and must possess both a passion for his vocation and the capacity to distance himself from the subject of his exertions ( the governed ).

The Agnus Dei would have been chanted in both Greek and Latin during this period, in the same manner as the other liturgical changes of Sergius I. Sergius I himself composed a litany in Greek ( extant in the Athelstan Psalter to be recited on the feast of all saints.

The congregation dealt both with regulating divine worship, and the causes of saints.

Her memorial, which commemorates her martyrdom, is 21 January in both the Roman Catholic calendar of saints and in the General Roman Calendar of 1962.

Miracle plays, or Saint's plays, are now distinguished from mystery plays as they specifically re-enacted miraculous interventions by the saints, particularly St. Nicholas or St. Mary, into the lives of ordinary people, rather than biblical events ; however both of these terms are more commonly used by modern scholars than they were by medieval people, who used a wide variety of terminology to refer to their dramatic performances.

They both denounced what they believed was the exaggerated cult of the saints, justification by works, and the coercion of the conscience in the sacrament of penance by the Catholic Church, that they believed could not offer certainty of salvation.

Despite holding some relics of Saints Cosmas and Damian, the priory never really became a centre of pilgrimage: many other churches also held relics of the same saints, including two different locations which both claimed to have their skulls.

The encouragement of the cult of royal saints in areas beyond the central Mercian lands also seems to have been a deliberate policy, and both Æthelred and Osthryth were later revered as saints at Bardney.

Officials of the Georgian Orthodox Church publicly objected to the inclusion of both religious and secular figures in the competition ( the January 2009 short list of 50 candidates included 13 saints ), as well as to the idea of having viewers put saints in rank order.

On January 22, GPB announced that Didi Ateuli would proceed, with both saints and secular figures retained in the competition, but that the final list of ten would not be ranked but would be announced in alphabetical order.

The text spans the entire year and describes the lives of many saints, both English and continental, and hearkens back to some of the earliest saints of the early church.

His two daughters, Herlindis and Relindis, both became abbesses of the monastery and eventually became saints.

Hinduism has a long tradition of veneration of saints, expressed toward various gurus and teachers of sanctity, both living and dead.

The Cappadocian Fathers advanced the development of early Christian theology, for example the doctrine of the Trinity, and are highly respected as saints in both Western and Eastern churches.

The congregation dealt both with regulating divine worship, and the causes of saints.

Muir's biographer, Steven J. Holmes, states that Muir has become " one of the patron saints of twentieth-century American environmental activity ," both political and recreational.

Its scholarly mission in both languages: the Greek and Syriac was to provide the world and the Universal Church with eminent saints, scholars, hermits and pastors.

A substantial portion of Jacobus ' text was drawn from two epitomes of collected lives of the saints, both also arranged in the order of the liturgical year, written by members of his Dominican order: one is Jean de Mailly's lengthy Abbreviato in gestis miraculis sanctorum ( Summary of the Deeds and Miracles of the Saints ) and the other is Bartholomew of Trent's Epilogum in gesta sanctorum ( Afterword on the Deeds of the Saints ).