Philippines Catholics are already pushing for the canonization of the late Corazon Aquino with Lipa Archbishop Ramon Arguelles describing the former President as a female St Thomas More. “Certainly she’s now in heaven,” Archbishop Arguelles told Radio Veritas according to CBCP Online.
He said the Church declares a person to be saint in order to serve as model to all the Catholic faithful.
“If I’m the pope, I will recognize her (Cory) as saint,” he said.
But even if the Church rejects campaign to declare Mrs Aquino a saint, he said she will still be regarded as a “model” by many people in and outside the country.
“That would be enough. In God’s own time, if God wants her to be a symbol for many people, then we can say that she’s really a saint on her political life… Saint of People Power,” he said.
“A woman like her is a gift of God to humanity,” he said.
Aquino’s case, said Archbishop Arguelles, can be compared to that of English statesman, Saint Thomas More, who gained a reputation as a leading Renaissance humanist scholar and public official in the 16th century.
Sir More was declared a Patron Saint of Politicians and Statesman in the year 2000 by Pope John Paul II.
“St Thomas More was a great politician. He said, ‘I am the faithful subject of the King but of God first’. Cory is the lady St Thomas More,” Arguelles said.
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