Gino Strada, A Latter Day Saint?

[sandyRoe]

He died recently. If I could nominate someone as a latter day saint I think it would be hard to find a better candidate.
Any thoughts?

[Zacs-Master]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Strada

For those, like me, who'd never heard of him. Remarkable man.

[Mamyalynne]

As Zacs has just commented, I too had to look him up - a truly amazing man who leaves a wonderful legacy.

[jno]

there is certainly a precedent for those who die in Rouen becoming saints.

[gness]

"To ignore the suffering of any human being is an act of violence and cowardice".
A remarkable and rare man.

[sandyRoe]

Jno,
I think he's as good a candidate for sainthood as Joan of Arc.

[jno]

and all she did was kill Englishmen. She wasn't even French.

[LeonBlank1995]

My vote would be for Princess Diana. God rest her soul.

[Lie-in King]

I'd not heard of him either - a man of considerable achievements & a life well-lived.

[Buenchico]

I suspect that Gino Strada's well-known atheism might be something of an obstacle to his canonisation ;-)

[anneasquith]

Some proven miracles required sandy. Maybe in a few hundred years time .

[Peter Pedant]

LDS has a special meaning for chrissakes

a sainthood for someone who says to the Taliban etc

" You blow up zer leedol chillun, and we steek them back together so you can shoot and blow them up agaaaaain?" - eyes bulge

yes it is in the style of Mad Harry of the Muppets

well possibly - even Mozza Teresa looks saintly compared to that. If I want be a saint I will take up a quiet contemplative life - less harm done

[Peter Pedant]

One of my tenants went back to her father - I agree perhaps pushed by me er somehow - and HE at the end of three weeks ( yup that long I lasted 7 months) - said

"I am a protestant minister and not a Roman Catholic saint" she moved on

Prince Di was a prot - ineligible on that alone, besides her other many faults drawback and foibles - as we really always knew - innit?

sozza rambled on - - one of the usual suspects ( Hi ! Andie) will be whining....

[Peter Pedant]

Time to sainthood - Guiness book of records has an opinion.
300 y ( forty martyrs one miracle only reqd) was par for the course

Joan of Arc was longish 1431 - 1920 . That isnt her age by the way for any Aber who is perhaps - - dozing. Shortest st Peter of somewhere 1252-3. This pope has canonised more than all preceding. Perhaps there was a saintly waiting list and he just ......

[jno]

nine years for Pope George Ringo II (he healed a nun with Parkinson's).

[sandyRoe]

Secular Saints?
A good man like this who spent much of his life, and sometimes put it at risk, helping others, is worth a thought.