This is magnificent stain glass portrait of Saint Jude Thaddeus – Saint of Hopeless Causes is one of my favorite Traditional Saints. From what I understand there been as many as 10,000 Catholic Saints. Today, they note, that there are only 810 canonized saints – these are the Saints who have passed through the formal institutional process of canonization, but that number is in flux – Pope Francis as of now, has added 36, including Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II. I’ll come back to the process of being canonized later, in a later article and we will check on the number again. Continue reading “Saint Stories 1 – Saint Jude, one of my favorite.”