True Celebrations of the Saints

For true celebrations of the saints ought to be reminders that the church may, in the saints, acknowledge and consider the examples of the presence, grace, goodness, wisdom, truth, and power of God, and may therefore by true thanksgiving praise God, who sets before us such glorious testimonies of His presence in His saints, and who distributes various gifts among the children of men, providing different people with different gifts, and wonderfully governing and defending them, that they may light the way for others through doctrine, confession, writings, miracles, martyrdom, constancy, shining deeds, and examples of other virtues. - Blessed Martin Chemnitz, Examination III:361