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assuming that every candidate belongs in the saint catalogue." }, { "name": "Recognition basis", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented canonisation; historical recognition; other documented basis requiring explanation; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Accommodates different historical forms of recognition without inventing a modern procedural history." }, { "name": "Recognising authority and ecclesial context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named authority, Catholic Church or tradition concerned, supporting document and applicable period", "why_it_matters": "Makes the institutional basis and scope of a recognition claim inspectable." }, { "name": "Recognition date precision", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Exact date; approximate date; bounded period; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Avoids presenting an inferred date or earliest surviving attestation as an exact recognition date." }, { "name": "Liturgical observance", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Calendar, jurisdiction or community, calendar edition, observance date, rank and applicable rules", "why_it_matters": "A commemoration is meaningful only within its governing calendar and context." }, { "name": "Grounds presented for recognition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Source-stated grounds or classifications, preserving original terminology and attribution", "why_it_matters": "Separates documented ecclesiastical reasoning from later summaries or assumptions." }, { "name": "Patronage attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Patronage subject, declaring authority or customary community, source and period", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes formal declarations from customary or popular associations." }, { "name": "Claim evidence state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Directly attested; indirectly attested; disputed; unverified; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Allows recognition, biography and devotional claims to carry different levels of support." } ], "affordances": [ "Resolve a saint's name or epithet to the appropriate person while retaining uncertain identifications.", "Check whether a claimed Catholic saint designation has a documented basis.", "Explain which recognition claims are established and which biographical or devotional claims remain disputed.", "Find an applicable commemoration for a specified Catholic calendar, location and year.", "Retrieve documented patronage and devotional associations with their authority and scope.", "Link related relics, shrines and artworks while preserving attribution and authenticity uncertainties." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe a saint's life and cult from Church and historical sources, distinguishing legend from record.", "State whether a person was formally canonized, beatified or recognized by tradition." ], "must_not": [ "Call a person a saint of the Catholic Church who has not been recognized as one.", "Mock or desecrate relics, images or feasts of saints.", "Present miracle accounts as historical fact or dismiss them as fraud in a neutral description.", "Sell objects as relics without disclosing their provenance." ], "requires_human": [ "Handling or moving relics." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Saints are objects of devotion; respect for believers matters even when describing contested history.", "Some canonized figures are linked to colonial or other harms that affected communities remember." ], "affected_parties": [ "Catholic believers", "Communities affected by saints' historical actions", "Historians" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The Catholic Church, through its process for causes of saints.", "master_systems": [ "Roman Martyrology" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "In art, often shown with a halo and symbols linked to their life or martyrdom." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Trade in fake relics deceives believers.", "Disputed canonizations can deepen divisions within and between communities." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Apostolic Constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister (1983), Holy See, governing causes of saints." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Catholic saints are encountered in liturgical calendars, church dedications, religious art, biographies and devotional practice.", "Their lives serve as examples of holiness within Catholic teaching, and believers may seek their intercession.", "Historical and liturgical research uses records of recognition to distinguish saints from people whose causes remain under consideration." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q3464126: Catholic saint", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3464126", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Catholic saint", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_saint", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "saint-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Saint identity and boundaries", "description": "Identifies the person to whom Catholic recognition attaches and tests whether the record belongs within this model.", "rationale": "Saint names recur across languages, places and traditions, while saintly reputation and other religious designations can be confused with recognised sainthood.", "layers": [ { "id": "personal-identification", "name": "Personal identification", "description": "Connects names, epithets and historical identifiers to the intended person.", "findings": [ { "id": "names-and-namesakes", "name": "Names and namesakes", "description": "Record the evidence linking each name or title to this person and distinguishing similarly named saints.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which birth names, religious names, translated names and epithets identify this saint?", "kind": "definition", "id": "names-and-namesakes-q01" }, { "text": "Which dates, places or affiliations distinguish this person from saints with the same name?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "names-and-namesakes-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "designation-boundary", "name": "Designation boundary", "description": "Separates Catholic recognition as a saint from neighbouring statuses and informal usage.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualifying-catholic-recognition", "name": "Qualifying Catholic recognition", "description": "Require an attributable basis for the saint designation and preserve any ambiguity about its Catholic applicability.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence supports identifying this person specifically as a Catholic saint?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "qualifying-catholic-recognition-q01" }, { "text": "Could the designation instead refer to beatification, popular reputation, another tradition or a collective commemoration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "qualifying-catholic-recognition-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-and-authority", "name": "Recognition and authority", "description": "Records how recognition is established, by whom and within what historical and ecclesial context.", "rationale": "A model must accommodate historical saints without forcing every recognition into a modern canonisation process.", "layers": [ { "id": "recognition-basis", "name": "Recognition basis", "description": "Identifies the act, record or historical practice supporting recognition.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognition-documentation", "name": "Recognition documentation", "description": "Distinguish an explicit recognition act from evidence of an already established historical recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which act or historical evidence establishes recognition, and where can it be inspected?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recognition-documentation-q01" }, { "text": "Does the recorded date mark recognition itself, a later confirmation or only the earliest surviving attestation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "recognition-documentation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-and-scope", "name": "Authority and scope", "description": "Situates recognition claims within the relevant authority, tradition and period.", "findings": [ { "id": "ecclesial-applicability", "name": "Ecclesial applicability", "description": "Record the scope actually supported by the evidence without inferring identical observance across Catholic communities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which authority or Catholic tradition supports the recognition, and what scope does its evidence establish?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "ecclesial-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "What further verification is needed before an agent describes the recognition as applicable beyond that documented context?", "kind": "action", "id": "ecclesial-applicability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-and-sanctity-evidence", "name": "Life and sanctity evidence", "description": "Organises the historical and religious claims used to identify the saint and explain the recognition.", "rationale": "Ecclesiastical recognition, historical biography and devotional narratives require distinct evidential treatment.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-life", "name": "Historical life", "description": "Retains the biographical anchors necessary to understand the recognised person.", "findings": [ { "id": "biographical-attestation", "name": "Biographical attestation", "description": "Separate supported life events from later traditions, disputed identifications and uncertain chronology.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources support the person's period, locations, community affiliations and circumstances of death?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "biographical-attestation-q01" }, { "text": "Which familiar life stories are late, disputed or unsupported by the sources inspected?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "biographical-attestation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "grounds-and-religious-claims", "name": "Grounds and religious claims", "description": "Records source-attributed grounds for recognition and associated claims without independently certifying supernatural events.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-grounds-and-miracles", "name": "Attributed grounds and miracles", "description": "Preserve the wording and authority of claims about martyrdom, holiness or miracles and distinguish them from popular retellings.", "questions": [ { "text": "What grounds or classifications do the relevant ecclesiastical sources give for this person's recognition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attributed-grounds-and-miracles-q01" }, { "text": "If miracles are associated with recognition, which claims received a documented ecclesiastical determination and which remain devotional reports?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-grounds-and-miracles-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "liturgical-commemoration", "name": "Liturgical commemoration", "description": "Connects the saint to calendar entries and the rules governing their observance.", "rationale": "A saint's name and a commonly quoted feast date are insufficient to determine an applicable liturgical celebration.", "layers": [ { "id": "calendar-placement", "name": "Calendar placement", "description": "Records each documented observance in its own calendar and edition.", "findings": [ { "id": "calendar-specific-observance", "name": "Calendar-specific observance", "description": "Keep observance dates, ranks and titles attached to the calendars that supply them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which calendar and edition list this saint, on what date and with what stated rank or designation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "calendar-specific-observance-q01" }, { "text": "Do other Catholic calendars commemorate the saint differently or omit the commemoration?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "calendar-specific-observance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "observance-application", "name": "Observance application", "description": "Determines which documented calendar provisions apply to a requested celebration.", "findings": [ { "id": "local-and-year-specific-use", "name": "Local and year-specific use", "description": "Resolve practical observance using the relevant community, year and governing liturgical directions.", "questions": [ { "text": "For the requested church, community and year, which calendar and official directions govern the observance?", "kind": "action", "id": "local-and-year-specific-use-q01" }, { "text": "Do the applicable directions alter the date, rank or celebration because of another observance?", "kind": "action", "id": "local-and-year-specific-use-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "devotion-and-associated-heritage", "name": "Devotion and associated heritage", "description": "Records patronage, devotional associations and links to material heritage with explicit attribution.", "rationale": "Popular associations can be mistaken for official declarations, and a saint's recognition does not establish the authenticity of every associated object or story.", "layers": [ { "id": "patronage-and-devotion", "name": "Patronage and devotion", "description": "Distinguishes declared patronage from customary devotion and records the communities concerned.", "findings": [ { "id": "patronage-basis", "name": "Patronage basis", "description": "Attach each patronage or devotional association to its evidence, origin and scope.", "questions": [ { "text": "For which places, communities, activities or concerns is this saint invoked, and what sources document each association?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "patronage-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Is each patronage supported by an authoritative declaration, a local custom or an unattributed popular claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "patronage-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "relics-shrines-and-images", "name": "Relics, shrines and images", "description": "Links independently modelled heritage records to the saint without importing their claims as established facts.", "findings": [ { "id": "associated-heritage-attribution", "name": "Associated heritage attribution", "description": "Record what associates a relic, shrine or iconographic attribute with this saint and what remains uncertain.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence connects each linked relic, burial site, shrine or identifying image attribute to this saint?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "associated-heritage-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Which attribution or authenticity qualifications must accompany an agent's description of these associations?", "kind": "action", "id": "associated-heritage-attribution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the 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"evidence": [ "Martyr", "Confessor, in the historical sense of a saint who was not a martyr", "Virgin", "Pastor", "Doctor of the Church" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Catholic saint this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The Catholic Church's Code of Canon Law, canon 1187, restricts public veneration to those whom Church authority has enrolled among the saints or the blessed.", "Divinus Perfectionis Magister, issued by Pope John Paul II, establishes procedures for causes of saints.", "The Roman Martyrology, published under the authority of the Holy See, records saints and blessed persons commemorated by the Roman Church." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Catholic saint this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Commemoration in liturgical calendars and celebrations.", "Invocation of saints' intercession in Catholic prayer.", "Presentation of lives as examples of Christian holiness.", "Designation as patrons of communities, occupations, places or causes.", "Dedication of churches and use in religious art and devotional practice." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Catholic saint this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating sainthood as an occupation, clerical rank or employment role.", "Confusing Catholic veneration of saints with the worship Catholic teaching reserves for God.", "Assuming every recognized saint underwent the modern canonization process.", "Treating devotional legends or disputed biographical details as established history.", "Assuming recognition as a saint entails universal calendar observance or endorsement of every action and opinion attributed to the person." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Catholic saint this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Eastern Catholic churches 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