Even if, perhaps, it is the lives of those saints who are well-known, and who have been, as it were, ‘canonized,’ rather than those who are hidden in the mists of time, known only to God (and to the few souls with whom they were acquainted), that are most likely to kindle a person’s faith, or encourage a person in the faith when that person is struggling, and is assailed by doubt. Insofar as the imagination is captured more easily, and brought to reverie, by saints whose biographies are specific, and exist within a tradition, than saints who are intangible, and whose stories must be constructed in the absence of one.