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A fact from Stephen of Perm appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 March 2006. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Saint Stephen of Perm invented the Permian alphabet for the Komi people in order to facilitate their education and eventual conversion to Christianity?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2006/March.

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Canonization as a Catholic Saint[edit]

As strange as it may seem, Stephen of Perm is also considered a saint by the Catholic Church!

Not only that, he's venerated by Catholics of the Latin and the Byzantine Churches! For documentation, I direct the readers here: http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0426.htm#step

More scholarly references include the following: D. Attwater's The Golden Book of Eastern Saints, J. Bentley's A Calendar of Saints: The Lives of the Principal Saints of the Christian Year, and especially Butler's Lives of the Saints.

I don't know how to explain this phenomena, save to say that it does occur periodically in the Church calendar that saints formally outside a denominational communion somehow come to be recognized as saints. For example, some Arian and Monophysite martyrs are venerated by the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Oh, well; however he got there, he made the cut, and today is his feast day amongst Catholics and Orthodox!DominvsVobiscvm 07:05, 26 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the problem is that this link doesn't work. I found him listed in one site of Butler's but not in any other site of Butler's. Is there any reference that discusses this?

Richardson mcphillips (talk) 14:03, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Does this count as a source for Wikipedia? http://thebananarepublican.blogspot.ca/2010/11/post-schism-russian-orthodox-saints-fr.html ?Richardson mcphillips (talk) 14:38, 26 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]