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L to canonization, with his character esemplaristico-selective and its implication of worship, not just select people, but the very model of holiness , pointing to a exemplary high level of evidence. Holiness, however, knows very varied routes and patterns. The measure of the holiness of a person is ultimately known by God alone and nothing prevents a convert to sanctify themselves in a very short time and reach a high degree of holiness. The typical case is offered by himself in the Gospel of the Good Thief, "canonized" ante litteram by Christ himself: "Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise" (Luke 23:43). In general, however, this merger of the journey, set against a life less than exemplary behavior for a long does not make it easy to check that model and proposed for canonization. The sanctity of such a person is not the less true.

Other problems may arise from the fact that the proposal of canonized saints tend to feel the dominant cultural patterns and, on non-essential aspects of Christian life, it can happen that you take different attitudes, while sharing the same fundamental holiness. Often the constraints Culture of churchmen who have the responsibility for this delicate discernment emerge strongly.

The history of holiness in the Church knows in fact a great variety of trails . Times, temperaments, backgrounds, circumstances, have acted to mold figures of saints that, if in some things necessarily resemble each other, in others express great and enriching diversity. There may be patterns of genuine holiness beyond the "canonized" and "canonization." The scenario of holiness a category known saints who is at least puzzling to our sensibilities: the so-called "fools of God", well known in the East (in the West think Francis of Assisi).

There is a sanctity beyond the borders of the Church ? If you take this concept of holiness in relation to the commitment with which you respond to grace, on the basis that this work universally, even holiness is universal. So there is a holiness that is "not Christian" in terms of explicit consciousness, as it includes the revelation given in Christ, but it's Christian roots in "as is acceptance of His Spirit, until the full revelation .

The Christian spirituality suffers from the inevitable setbacks complex condition of the culture and religiosity our world, and in areas not constrained by such "spirituality outside the borders," and it's no wonder that, under the influence of the Spirit of God who does not surrender to the human condition, to develop paths of holiness and only God knows that the Christian discernment can even see the view of God, leaving the final evaluation.

( Domenico Sorrentino, The experience of God in spiritual theology Design, Cittadella Editrice, Assisi 2007, pp. 870-876).