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[[File:Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|[[Saint Augustine]] ]]
 
[[File:Saint Augustine by Philippe de Champaigne.jpg|right|thumbnail|250px|[[Saint Augustine]] ]]
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A '''saint''' (from Old French ''saint'', from Latin ''sanctus'', from ''sancire'' to be set apart) in general is a [[holy]] or godly person.<ref>''The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary: including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary'', 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-216606. | S | saint | page 1184a</ref> In [[religion]] as a whole there are recognized [[Hinduism|Hindu]], [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], [[Islam|Moslem]], [[Sufi]] and [[Christianity|Christian]] saints.
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A '''saint''' (from Old French ''saint'', from Latin ''sanctus'', from ''sancire'' to be set apart) in general is a [[holy]] or godly person.<ref>''The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary: including Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary'', 1966, The Reader's Digest Association, Inc., Pleasantville, New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-216606. | S | saint | page 1184a</ref> In [[religion]] as a whole there are recognized [[Christianity|Christian]], [[Hinduism|Hindu]], [[Buddhism|Buddhist]], [[Islam|Moslem]] and [[Sufi]] saints.
    
==Saints in Catholicism==
 
==Saints in Catholicism==
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