Which isn’t to make a hierarchy where one is unnecessary, or to imply the presence of one where one may not exist, but to distinguish again, I suppose, between sanctity as it avails itself to every person who becomes incarnate in the world, and the communion of saints as it is articulated and recognized by the various denominations of the Church, for the hope and inspiration it affords, very generally, but also for specific things like its intercessory power in heaven, where it persists in the beatific vision, and the protection and guidance that might obtain to those pilgrim souls, throughout creation, who would seek among its number those ‘patrons’ to whom they have a special devotion, and might address themselves in prayer.