I have always been puzzled with the thought that whether there could be saintly people who have lived or living in Catholic Church who could not get through the whole process of canonisation in order to be officially declared Saints. Are there any such saintly persons who are left out without being canonised?
If you could count on the number of saints in Catholic Church, majority of them are from Western Countries. St. Thomas, one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus, is conventionally believed to have landed in India in AD 52 and baptised several people, founding what is known today as Saint Thomas Christians or Nasranis. Therefore, the Eastern Church Christians had been equally privileged to have received Christian faith from one of the twelve Apostles of Jesus and share the ‘Experienced Christ.’
