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#68304. diffuseaxon
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Are there individuals who have been canonized as saints by the Catholic Church, and then later stripped of their sainthood?
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gdec1
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In 1965, in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, the Church began to reinvestigate the story of Saint Simon and opened the trial records anew. Finally declaring the episode a fraud, the cult of Saint Simon was disbanded by Pope Paul VI and the shrine erected to him was dismantled. He was removed from the calendar, and his future veneration was forbidden.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_of_Trent
Jul 16 06, 10:37 AM
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zbeckabee
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Saint Ursula--leader of a group of maidens who, according to legend, went from Britain to Rome and were massacred on their return by Huns near Lower Rhine (various dates given, AD 238, 283, 382, 451); church erected at Cologne in their honor; removed from sainthood by Pope Paul VI in 1969.
http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9339221
Jul 16 06, 12:41 PM
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lanfranco
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Alas -- St. Ursula and her 10,000 Virgins were always among my favorites.
In fact, though Ursula was among the many fabulous saints removed from the official Calendar in 1969 (which did not mean, the Vatican hastened to emphasize, that they were not still saints), she was "restored" in 2005 by John Paul II. She is not alone in being treated, in typical Vatican doubletalk as both a legend and a saint worthy of devotion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ursula
Jul 16 06, 9:09 PM
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