Queen Elizabeth II To Become A Saint? Journalist Claims She Performed 'Miracles'
Is Queen Elizabeth II going to be made a saint?
A journalist says that the late monarch would be an ideal candidate for sainthood if the United Kingdom was a Catholic country.
However, according to the BBC, there are a few prerequisites for becoming a saint. They also noted that it is unusual for someone to become a saint until five years following death.
According to writer and editor Charles Moore, writing for the Spectator Australia, Queen Elizabeth II is the "ideal person" for sainthood.
Moore believes the 96-year-old late monarch possesses the first two official prerequisites for the becoming a saint, after all, she was the Supreme Governor of the Church of England.
It is what the Church calls as "heroic virtue."
"The second is to prove two miracles effected by intercession to the person concerned."
While this can take time, Moore wrote in his article how many people already believe that Queen Elizabeth II "cured them of this or that."
"As her cult grows, plenty of posthumous examples will come forward."
It was also mentioned that the Church of England has an odd position on sainthood and only accepts pre-Reformation canonizations. It has had "never tried to add to their number."
But Moore said in his article that this would be the "best possible moment to start," adding, "Admittedly, the person in all the world least likely to have approved of such a proceeding would have been Elizabeth herself. But then, the sort of person who wants to be a saint is the sort who must not be made one."
He said one example, "where the Queen, after death, made a difference."
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Moore also stated that he has a cousin who is cautious since he has a family that is concerned about contracting COVID and other ailments.
For the past 29 months, his cousin Tom has had no direct human interaction save with intimate family members. However, Tom still chose to attend Queen Elizabeth II's lying-in-state.
He drove hundreds of kilometers, waited in line for 15 hours, and never sat down. When Tom arrived to Westminster Hall and saw the casket, he allegedly informed him that the "beautiful experience of grace wiped aside his terror."
"He is left with its rational aspects, but finds that what he calls 'the sense of irrational jeopardy' has gone. He quotes the line from the hymn, 'The prisoner leaps to lose his chains.'"
