Commenting on this, the book Ekklisiastiki Istoria (Ecclesiastical History) states: “For those being converted from paganism to Christianity, it was easy to recognize their abandoned heroes in the person of the martyrs and to start rendering them the honor they previously gave to the former ones....
सो “सन्तों, ” को शामिल करने से एक समझौता संभव होता जो प्राचीन देवताओं, मानव - देवों, और काल्पनिक नायकों की जगह लेते ।