All Faithful Departed
In the New Testament, the word saints is used to describe the entire membership of the Christian community, and in the Collect for All Saints Day the word elect is used in a similar sense. From very early times, however, the word saint came to be applied primarily to persons of heroic sanctity, whose deeds were recalled with gratitude by later generations.
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