Glossary Term
Risk: High- Approved rendering
- Heilige
- Transliteration
- die Heiligen
Saints
HIGH RISK: Catholic ‘die Heiligen’ (canonized saints, Heiligsprechung, patron saints, Namenstag) differs from the Lutheran/Reformed sense of all believers as ‘Heilige’ under the priesthood of all believers (allgemeines Priestertum). Given Germany’s roughly even historical Catholic/Protestant split, this fault line is live for a broad audience.