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Saint Arthur of Glastonbury
Does anyone have access to any reliable sources about Saint Arthur of Glastonbury. The article we have seems confused and unsupported.&mdash; Rod talk 11:50, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Appears he may be John Arthur Thorne, known as Arthur, and martyred in 1539. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 20:34, 30 July 2014 (UTC).

Peer review/Stephen I of Hungary/archive1
I initiated a peer review of Stephen I of Hungary, a GA, before its FAN. I would appreciate comments on this article about the first King of Hungary who is also a popular saint in Central Europe. Borsoka (talk) 06:16, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Listing churches on Saints' pages
I was wondering if there is a policy/opinion on whether listing (important) churches dedicated to a given saint on their wikipedia page is a good or bad idea. Best Furius (talk) 23:24, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I would imagine it is a good idea for Saint Olaf and a bad idea for Saint Peter. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 19:58, 30 July 2014 (UTC).

Local saints
Hello! I wonder; is there a special category for local saints? By local saint, I mean saints not recongised officially as saints by the Catolic curch, but still vorshiped as such locally in countries and villages in Europe in the middle ages. Also: is there a special name for such saints? --85.226.46.215 (talk) 14:38, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, it's hard to determine precisely what you mean. You seem to be operating on the assumption that only the RCC recognizes saints, which is wrong, and that there were always a "central authority" regarding saints, which is also wrong. All that is required to be called a "saint" is being included in some religious calendar somewhere as one.
 * Given the great number of "unofficial" saints of the kind you describe, I think that it would be functionally impossible for a separate category of the kind you describe, because of the difficulties involved in determining the terms for inclusion in it. There is no special name for such people, because their official status is so often greatly variant that there's no single term which can adequately describe them all. Basically, they are included in the general categories, with occasion indications of how they are different as required. John Carter (talk) 14:54, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I see. I believe they really are a "central authority". The Catholic curch is a well organized international organization who aknowledges some saints and not others. I would have thought that they were one category for aknowledged saints and one for non aknowledged. I am very far from an expert. But surely there is a difference. But; thank you for your answer!--85.226.46.215 (talk) 20:34, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

I agree that one formal body to define saints is both impractical and not representative of pre-world wide web religious thinking. Of the people known as saints around the world, there is a sub-section formally recognized by the Roman Catholic Church. I live in Glasnevin, Ireland and have access to some original documentation about St Mobhi and the building of a church in Glasnevin where his monastery was. The church in question is named after St. Mobhi. JEM1406a (talk) 09:41, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Maximilian Kolbe for GAN
I've finished my expansion and referencing of Maximilian Kolbe. I plan on WP:GAN it a few days if there are no concerns raised. As I am not a native speaker, nor an expert on Christian saints, I'd appreciate comments, reviews and edits by members of this WP. If possible, please post at the article's talk and/or WP:ECHO me. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 08:21, 5 September 2014 (UTC)

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Proposal to move Methodism to Child Project
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Ladislaus I of Hungary: peer review
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Categories Christian saints by denomination
See this discussion. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:17, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

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RfC: Jadwiga of Poland
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A good resource
--evrik (talk) 22:26, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

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Categorisation of High and Late Medieval saints
After the separation of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church, until the separation of Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, we currently have the following categories for western medieval saints: Especially for saints who are also in the latter two categories, this may cause some category clutter in the articles. We can either keep it the way it is and take the category clutter for granted, or we can simplify things by considering all western medieval saints to be just Christian saints (without any denomination mentioned in the category). In the first option we don't need to do anything, in the second option we should propose to listify&delete the two last two categories and to rename the Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran categories to include modern in the category name (i.e. these categories should only include saints who lived during or after the Reformation). This way, if we want to find medieval Roman Catholic saints, we will find them in the medieval Christian saints categories by nationality, while if we want to find pre-Reformation Lutheran and Anglican saints, there will be a list. So these are two options (keep or change) and perhaps there is a third alternative. Please share your thoughts. Marcocapelle (talk) 17:16, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
 * 1) Nearly all saints are in Category:11th-century Christian saints up to Category:15th-century Christian saints (together with the eastern saints)
 * 2) Quite a number of western saints are in Category:German Roman Catholic saints, Category:Italian Roman Catholic saints etc. (similar to e.g. Category:Greek saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church for the eastern saints)
 * 3) Quite a number of western saints are in Category:Medieval German saints, Category:Medieval Italian saints etc. (similar to e.g. Category:Saints of medieval Greece for the eastern saints)
 * 4) A few saints are in Category:Pre-Reformation saints of the Lutheran liturgical calendar
 * 5) And a few saints are in Category:Pre-Reformation Anglican saints
 * I have difficulty accepting the need for 4 and 5 above. According to the Calendar of Saints (Lutheran), Michelangelo, is commemorated! So you don't even have to be a saint to be on the calendar. Events in the life of Jesus are also commemorated. Also, the calendar appears to be confined to North America. I see nothing that says it is observed in Europe. Such people and events are best kept as a list in "Calendar of Saints (Lutheran)". Retain the post reformation saints category for Lutheran saints, but let it be assumed that all pre-reformation Christian saints are worthy of Lutheran commemoration, if that's what they want to do. Is there any pre-reformation saint that Lutherans definitively dispute as not being a saint? Some particularly nasty pope perhaps? Laurel Lodged (talk) 16:11, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Fortunately, for this discussion at least, all saints in cat 4, Category:Pre-Reformation saints of the Lutheran liturgical calendar, are also Roman Catholic saints (or very incidentally, Jan Hus, not Roman Catholic but Eastern Orthodox). Michelangelo belongs to the parent Category:People celebrated in the Lutheran liturgical calendar, in which nearly none of the people are (Roman Catholic) saints anyway, so that's less of a problem. Marcocapelle (talk) 19:51, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

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Updates to List of Catholic saints article
At List of Catholic saints there seems to be an on-going flow of "non-saints" being added to the list. To help clarify the exact meaning of saint I updated that list's article & talk pages with:

1) From - Canonization

The steps to canonization that the candidates have to go through to become a saint:

2) From - Saints who are also venerated by the Eastern Orthodox Church are in Category:Christian saints by century and/or Category:Christian saints by nationality.

In reading, this WP's project page, I added these same two above in the hopes of clarity. Regards, JoeHebda   (talk)  13:49, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

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Saint Joseph
The name of the article Saint Joseph is under discussion, see talk:Saint Joseph -- 70.51.46.195 (talk) 05:13, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

San Giuseppe
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Which St. Theodore?
Is there any way to determine which Saint Theodore is depicted in the left pane of the stained glass shown here (from Christ Church Cathedral, Victoria, British Columbia). - Jmabel &#124; Talk 18:15, 30 August 2015 (UTC)

Having no response after a week, I've asked at Reference desk/Humanities. - Jmabel &#124; Talk 17:24, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Have youtried calling the church?--evrik (talk) 22:26, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

For what's worth (that is in case you didn't find it yet), it's Theodore of Tarsus, Arch. of Canterbury. If you notice, in the height of his head reads "Arch" in the left, and "Can' in the right, as in Canterbury. Likewise, for Wildrid it reads Arch. Eborum (Eborensis), which is York. Here is another depiction of Theodore on stained glass. Wolfymoza (talk) 07:41, 25 May 2016 (UTC)

Possible article split
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Ladislaus I of Hungary (FAC)
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Set indices about Saints
Set indices are articles covering multiple subjects (of the same type) with the same name. I've encountered about 10 of these on the subject of Saints (example: Saint Alexander) and I imagine there may be more Saints with the same name (and having shared articles). Would you guys be interested in a category called Category:Set indices on Saints (part of the Category:Set indices tree?).

You could add articles to this category by tagging them with set index article (or SIA), like this: ). If this sounds good, I'll propose to add the (currently non-existent) switch "Saints" over on the template's page. As I said, about 10 articles currently use that switch, but don't result in a usable category so far. Thanks! --Azertus (talk) 13:04, 12 November 2016 (UTC)

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Former Catholic Saints
Shouldn’t there be a clean-up in the former catholic saints, as per the 1969 revision? Also maybe a category too, “Category:Former catholic saints”. Also, the revision removed many popes from being saints (17 in number), so a category too, “Category:Former pope saints”. In any case, for anyone who want to see to it, here are the names of the saint altogether deleted from veneration, and should not be listed as catholic saints:

Alexius of Rome, Anicetus, Bacchus, Apuleius, Barbara, Basilides, Cyrinus, Nabor and Nazarius, Boniface, Catherine, Cletus, Marcellinus, Cyprian and Justina, Dorothy, Eleutherius, Eustace and Companions, Evaristus, Faustinus and Jovita, Felix, Forty Martyrs, Hyginus, Innocent, Linus, Thecla, Lucius, Marcellus, Margaret, Maris, Martha, Abachum and Audifax, Pius, Placid and Companions, Sergius, Seven Holy Brothers, Soter, Caius, Symphorosa and her seven sons, Telephorus, Tryphon, Respicius, and Nympha, Twelve Holy Brothers, Urban, Ursula and companions, Victor, Zephyrinus.

Wolfymoza (talk) 07:24, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * It is useful to distinguish between the General Calendar and the Martyrology. I don't think any of these have been removed from the Martyrology. Thus they are not "former saints" but "saints removed from the General Calendar" Richardson mcphillips (talk) 16:02, 11 May 2017 (UTC)
 * "Former saint" is not even a possible thing in Catholic theology. --Trovatore (talk) 07:24, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Can we consider him a Saint?Jeromeenriquez (talk) 07:18, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

Patron saints of ailments, illness, and dangers
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Names of some list articles and categories
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 * List of Servants of God (Category:Servants of God)
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 * List of beatified people (Category:Beatified people)
 * List of Catholic saints (Category:Roman Catholic saints)

I propose that (a) List of beatified people should be renamed to List of beatified Catholics, and (b) Category:Beatified people should be renamed to Category:Beatified Catholics for consistency with the other items in this group. The progression from one group to the next seems clear and logical to me, but those two titles look out of place.

I am opening this as a discussion rather than boldly going ahead, because I'm not RC. If another editor wants to be bold, I say go for it. Narky Blert (talk) 05:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

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Catholic saint identifications
I have just uploaded a number of pictures of stained-glass windows in a Roman Catholic church to Wikimedia Commons. There are some saints whom I can't identify, and I'd very much appreciate suggestions.

The first picture is this. I think the one on the right is St. Ursula (wearing crown, carrying arrow), but I'm stumped as to the one on the left. The lilies, crucifix, and white surplice over black cassock are consistent with St. Francis Xavier; but this saint looks quite youthful, whereas all the other depictions I've ever seen of FX have shown him bearded.

The second picture is this. I think the saint on the left is St. Zita (apron; donated by someone named Zita, who presumably paid for a window of her namesake saint), but I've got no idea who the martial-looking one at right is.

If it helps, the church was built by a congregation mostly German, with an Irish element. Thanks&mdash;

--Ammodramus (talk) 03:38, 28 February 2010 (UTC)


 * In the first picture, on the left is Saint Aloysius Gonzaga with lilies and crucifix. Respectfully,   Tiyang (talk) 01:39, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Next to St. Aloysius is Saint Ursula, patroness of Cologne. You are correct regarding Zita; the identity of the one next to her is apparently unclear. Mannanan51 (talk) 17:15, 3 May 2018 (UTC)

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Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:54, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Hugh of Lincoln listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Hugh of Lincoln to be moved. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 08:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
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Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln to be moved. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 09:29, 6 June 2018 (UTC)
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Ichthus June 2018 is out now!

 * Project News: Is Genesis History? See the RFC.
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 * Featured article: Jewish boy causes fall of Roman Catholic Papal States?
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Hugh Cook alias Faringdon listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Hugh Cook alias Faringdon to be moved to Hugh Faringdon. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 16:30, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
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Saint Reparata listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Saint Reparata to be moved to Reparata. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 05:45, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
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Saint Vincenca listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Saint Vincenca to be moved to Vincenca. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 05:46, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
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Ichthus July 2018 is out now!

 * The Top 7 Report: The big news was the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle
 * Did You Know: Sun of Unclouded Righteousness
 * Our newest Featured list: List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events
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Swami Vivekananda listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Swami Vivekananda to be moved to Vivekananda. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 22:44, 18 July 2018 (UTC)
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Robert Baron listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Robert Baron to be moved to Robert Baron (theologian). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 03:46, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
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List of Persian Roman Catholic saints listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for List of Persian Roman Catholic saints to be moved to List of Persian Catholic saints. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 14:16, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
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Friard d'Indret stub
Please check out and try to improve the page at Friard d'Indret. I am not aware of notability criteria for saints, but do not want to delete outright. Etzedek24 (I'll talk at ya) (Check my track record) 22:44, 25 August 2018 (UTC)

Jaggi Vasudev listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Jaggi Vasudev to be moved to Sadhguru. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 20:30, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
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Jaggi Vasudev listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Jaggi Vasudev to be moved to Sadhguru. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 06:01, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
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Hindus added to this WP
It would seem, as evidenced by the slew of RM notices above, that banned user had a predilection to add Hindu "holy men" to our WikiProject. Therefore his contributions would merit some scrutiny. I have removed the template from several talk pages already. Thanks! 2600:8800:1880:188:5604:A6FF:FE38:4B26 (talk) 01:23, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Some were incorrect and some were debatable. Thanks for looking. Qualitist (talk) 02:13, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

Saint Nicholas Day listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Saint Nicholas Day to be moved to Saint Nicholas's Day. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 17:33, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
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Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia to be moved to Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 14:15, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
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Co-Redemptrix listed at Requested moves
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Regina Coeli listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Regina Coeli to be moved to Regina Caeli. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 15:00, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
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Saint Philemon listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Saint Philemon to be moved to Philemon (biblical figure). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 21:30, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
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Abraham of Armenia (Leontine martyr) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Abraham of Armenia (Leontine martyr) to be moved to Abraham of Arazd. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 17:00, 13 June 2019 (UTC)
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Regina Caeli listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Regina Caeli to be moved to Regina caeli. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 12:45, 20 June 2019 (UTC)
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Marie of St Peter listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Marie of St Peter to be moved to Marie of Saint Peter. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 14:01, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
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James, son of Zebedee listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for James, son of Zebedee to be moved to James the Great. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 03:44, 14 August 2019 (UTC)
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Good Article review for ordan of Bristol
The Good Article nomination for Jordan of Bristol is in danger of failing because the primary editor is not currently active. It would be appreciated if any editors from this wikiproject improve the article or discuss the review at Talk:Jordan of Bristol/GA1. Kim Post (talk) 12:51, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

Our Lady of Vladimir listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Our Lady of Vladimir to be moved to Vigin of Vladimir. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 15:00, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
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Helena (empress) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Helena (empress) to be moved to Helena of Constantinople. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 20:45, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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Frithuswith listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Frithuswith to be moved to Frideswide. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 11:00, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
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Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Rasmus Jensen listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Rasmus Jensen to be moved to Rasmus Jensen (priest). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 11:46, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
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New bot to remove completed infobox requests
Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject Saints since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as infobox journal for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as starbox begin should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!

Sent on behalf of Trialpears (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism. Elizium23 (talk) 06:45, 28 January 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Abune Mathias
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Abune Mathias. Elizium23 (talk) 05:33, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

Joan of Arc (Dubois) listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Joan of Arc (Dubois) to be moved to Equestrian statue of Joan of Arc (Washington, D.C.). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 13:48, 10 March 2020 (UTC)
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Tiridates III of Armenia listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Tiridates III of Armenia to be moved to Tiridates IV of Armenia. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 01:46, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
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Venerated people categories
Hi, I noticed something peculiar tonight. Categories such as Category:Venerated Catholics and Category:19th-century venerated Christians, etc. are populated with saints! They should not be, IMHO, because they are for people who have been declared by the Church as "The Venerable" which is two steps away from sainthood. Once someone is beatified and/or canonized, they should go in different categories and have the "Venerated" categories removed, right? I have begun to remove the cats from known saints, but I thought I would check in here to make sure this is the right move. Thanks. Elizium23 (talk) 06:09, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Pope Paul II
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Pope Paul II. Elizium23 (talk) 03:39, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

RfC on non-contemporary images of popes
There is an RfC at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Catholicism concerning the use of non-contemporary images of popes in articles that may be of interest to editors here. Display name 99 (talk) 17:04, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

Father Damien
Hello. An open invitation for anyone interested to try to take a shot at improving the above mentioned article. I have done some copy editing, trimmed superfluous prose, added citations, etc. but I'm tired of repeatedly being reverted, and not inclined to engage in some stupid edit war with someone who apparently doesn't want the page touched. Redundant and rather poor sentence structure. Reads like a second level exercise. I have better things to do.Manannan67 (talk) 23:30, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Istifan Al-Duwayhi listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Istifan Al-Duwayhi to be moved to Istifan al-Duwayhi. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 14:46, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
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Assessment page, charts
Hi all, Today I added charts to Saints WP assessment page. Found them on another wikiproject & thought to add here also. JoeNMLC (talk) 16:13, 2 June 2020 (UTC)