Who's the best saint?
>>2851549
Simeon_Stylites who had spent four decades living on a pillar and inspired a bunch of other people to do the same.
> In this last and lofty station, the Syrian Anachoret resisted the heat of thirty summers, and the cold of as many winters. Habit and exercise instructed him to maintain his dangerous situation without fear or giddiness, and successively to assume the different postures of devotion. He sometimes prayed in an erect attitude, with his outstretched arms in the figure of a cross, but his most familiar practice was that of bending his meagre skeleton from the forehead to the feet; and a curious spectator, after numbering twelve hundred and forty-four repetitions, at length desisted from the endless account. The progress of an ulcer in his thigh might shorten, but it could not disturb, this celestial life; and the patient Hermit expired, without descending from his column
>>2851549
best how?
most holy, most knowledgeable...what?
In any case I'm going to have to go with Augustine. Defending Christianity for an entire empire and slamming pagans who would disagree, very impressive.
Jerome is also up there, if only for his incredibly extensive works of history.
>>2851549
St. Anthony the Great is great! Started the whole monastic tradition within Christianity. Who knows where'd we be without him
St. George literally killed a dragon.
>>2851549
Saint James the Moorslayer
Joan of Arc burnt at the stake when she was innocent.
>>2851812
That's like half the saints bruh
>>2851816
But this one is murdered by treacherous anglos
>>2851605
> muh baptising of Diogenes.