Last Updated on January 26, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
Normally, the candidate to be declaired holy must be credited with at least two miracles that he is said to have caused through his intercession. However, the Pope has the final say. In exceptional cases, he can also canonize people without proof of miracles. In the case of Pope John XXIII.26 Apr 2014
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/heiligsprechung-ts-102.html
One of the miracles Niklaus von Flue did was that he did not eat for 20 years:
Interesting for us personally in this context is the explanation of Sadhguru about enlighenement:
How Do You Recognize An Enlightened Being ? | Sadhguru
Sadhguru says,
Someone is enlightened when he leads
an unblemished life
and has
no branding
unblemished means having no fault or flaw
and having no branding means
not sold under a brand name.
So was Niklaus von Flue, enlighened as well? He was a farmer, military leader, member of the assembly, councillor, judge and mystic,
he was respected as a man of complete moral integrity
For us personally interesting in the context is that we sometimes can read that Jesus Christ is for people in the East an enlighened being. But if we have a closer look at it, we can see that enlighened is not scientifically clearly defined. But we can find for instance from Matthieu Ricard who is a Buddhist monk a defintion. And we suppose this definition is from the worlds of Buddha.