The Catechism of the Council of Trent, published in the 16th century to reaffirm Catholic dogma, decreed: “We are justified in concluding, that to honour the saints ‘ who sleep in the Lord, ’ to invoke their intercession, and to venerate their sacred relics and ashes, far from diminishing, tends considerably to increase the glory of God, in proportion as the Christian’s hope is thus animated and fortified, and he himself excited to the imitation of their virtues. ”
इसके बजाय, संतों को ऐसी श्रद्धा देने पर एक मसीही की आशा जितनी उज्ज्वल और मज़बूत होती है, परमेश्‍वर की महिमा भी उतनी ही बढ़ती है । और उस मसीही के दिल में भी उन संतों जैसे सद्‌गुण बढ़ाने की प्रेरणा जाग उठती है । ”