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. ”
( द कॅटेकिझम ऑफ द काउंन्सिल ऑफ ट्रेन्ट, १९०५) खऱ्‍या ख्रिश्‍चनांना निश्‍चितच सद्‌गुणी जीवन जगायचे आहे, देवाकडे योग्य मार्गाने जायचे आहे आणि ईश्‍वरी मदत प्राप्त करायची आहे.