. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. more enlarged account, which they them-(clves give of the matter. The canonization of faints,then, they tell us, is the enrolment of any perfon inthe canon or catalogue of thofe who are called faints;or. it is a judgement and fentence of the church, bywhich it is declaied, tliat a deceafed jieiion was emi-nent for faiu-fhy during his lifetime, and efpccially to-wards the end of it ; and that confcquently he multnow be in glory with God, and deferves to be honour-ed by the cliurch on eaith with that ven
. Encyclopædia britannica; or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature. more enlarged account, which they them-(clves give of the matter. The canonization of faints,then, they tell us, is the enrolment of any perfon inthe canon or catalogue of thofe who are called faints;or. it is a judgement and fentence of the church, bywhich it is declaied, tliat a deceafed jieiion was emi-nent for faiu-fhy during his lifetime, and efpccially to-wards the end of it ; and that confcquently he multnow be in glory with God, and deferves to be honour-ed by the cliurch on eaith with that veneration whichflic is wont lo pay to the bleffed in heaven. The difcipline with regard to this matter has would fccm that in the firll ages every bifhop in hisown diocefc was wont to declare what perfons \vere toLe honoured as faints by his people. Hence Sf Cy-prian, iiboul the middle of the third century, B. 6. require.: that he be informed of ihofe who in prilbn for the faiih, that fo he might make men-lion of thim in the holy facrificc with the martyrs, and. m Dp 1 S A I and might honour them aftenvards on the anniverfaiy^ day ot their happy death. This veneration continiietlfomeliraes to be conhned to one country ; but fome-timss it extended to diftant province;, and even becameUniverfnl all over the church. It wa? tiius that St Lau-i«nce, St Ambrofe, St Auguftine, St Bafil, and manyothers, appear to have been canonized by cuftora anduniverfal perfuafion. In thoe ages none were reckon-ed faints but the apoftles, the martyrs, and very emi-nent confeflbr?, whole fanitity was notorious every-where. Afterwards it appears that cinonizalions were wontto be performed in provincial fynods under the direc-tion of the metropolitan. It was thus that St Ifidoreof Seville was canonized in the 7th century, by the8th council of Toledo, 14 years after hjs dea;h. Thismanner of canonization continued occafionally down tothe 12th The lad inftance of a fa
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