THE SAINTS "DE-CANONIZED" BY THE CONCILIAR CHURCH

The feast of St. Crispin, a date that according to Shakespeare, would "from now (1415) to the ending of the world" mark the remembrance of the English victory at Agincourt. Yet Henry V and Shakespeare did not reckon with the Vatican II Church! St. Crispin was removed from the calendar in 1969 as part of the "updating" process that destroyed nearly all in its wake. Many other saints were likewise removed, but much more troubling, several saints were effectively "de-canonised" (but for the fact that canonisations are infallible according to most theologians and therefore people cannot be de-canonised). Here are a few examples:

St. Simon of Trent - popular child martyr ritually murdered by Jews on the 24th of March 1475 - In 1965 Archbishop Alessandro Gotardi of the Diocese of Trent declared the murderers innocent. As a result of the decree of the Archbishop, the Vatican Congregation of Rites forbade the veneration of relics or the saying of masses in Simon’s name. This instance of de-canonising a pre-Vatican II saint is particularly troubling because there are not even claims that the saint in question did not exist or denials of the miracles attributed to him -- it was purely a political move. Since it is politically incorrect to venerate a child who was ritually murdered by Jews (notwithstanding a new trial conducted 110 years after St. Simon's death that upheld the verdict, and notwithstanding that even some Jewish scholars admit the verdict may be valid -- cf. http://www.traditioninaction.org/History/A_010_BloodyPassovers.htm) he had to be removed. But appeasing non-Catholics is hardly a proper reason for calling into question the indefectibility of the Church (see below). And, incidentally, St. Simon of Trent is not a "pre-Congregation" saint, since the same pope who confirmed his canonisation was the one who instituted the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints in 1588 (St. Simon was canonised that same year).

St. William of Norwich - another Catholic child (this one English) ritually murdered by Jews (+1144), who has since had his cult suppressed, although at least in this case (unlike St. Simon) there does not appear to have been a popular cultus.

St. Ursula - one of the most famous and miraculous saints "de-canonised" by the Vatican II heresiarchs, she was one of a group of 11,000 virgins massacred by the Huns near Cologne circa 383. Despite the fact that she has always had a very lively cultus, including numerous churches and streets named after her, her cult was suppressed in 1969 (Wikipedia disputes this, but numerous other Novus Ordo sites I checked confirm the suppression).

St. Catherine of Alexandria - Great martyress of the early Church, one of the most widely-revered saints of the Middle Ages, one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers - removed from the liturgical calendar in 1969 over doubts concerning her "historicity"-- I am waiting for them to de-canonise St. Joan of Arc since La Pucelle must have been hallucinating when she spoke with St. Catherine!

Now, I believe that this is a very grave matter because the Vatican II hierarchs implicitly say that the pre-Vatican II Church defected by commending these individuals to the universal Church for veneration. As St. Thomas Aquinas states: "Since the honour we pay the saints is in a certain sense a profession of faith, i.e., a belief in the glory of the Saints [quâ sanctorum gloriam credimus] we must piously believe that in this matter also the judgment of the Church is not liable to error." As such, even pre-Congregation canonisations are part of the infallible Ordinary Magisterium.

Yet the Modernists claim that the Church did err on this point when they suppress these cults. Arguments of historical ambiguity are really irrelevant here because it is through tradition and the confirmation by miracles that saints like Ursula and Catherine of Alexandria were added to the calendar. St. Simon of Trent was added by decree of Pope Sixtus V triggering the infallibility of the papacy and the Church's Extraordinary Magisterium. Objectively, this is heresy and one of the more clear-cut (if less "celebrated") examples of it in the conciliar church.

One also cannot help but note the cultural significance to removing saints who played a significant role in certain nations' or localities' cultural history. Making Henry V a liar by removing the saints he invokes? And what of the basilica in Cologne named after St. Ursula?

Posted on the Feast of St. Crispin and Crispinian, Martyrs, a.D. MMXI