Communion of saints
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The communion of saints, when referred to persons, is the spiritual union of the members of the Christian Church, living and the dead, but excluding the damned. They are all part of a single "mystical
Revelation 5:8 presents the saints in Heaven as linked by prayer with their fellow Christians on earth
Apostles' Creed
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The Apostles' Creed, sometimes titled the Apostolic Creed or the Symbol of the Apostles, is a Christian creed or "symbol of faith".
Communion of saints
…335–414); the term has since then played a central role in formulations of the Christian creed. Belief in the communion of saints is affirmed in the Apostles' Creed. The word sanctorum in the phrase communio sanctorum can also be understood as referring not to holy persons, but to holy things, namely the blessings…
Medieval Credo Apostolorum, dated c. 1300 (Bibliothèque Mazarine ms. 0924 f. 150v). The sequence of attribution to the apostles is: 1. Peter, 2. Andrew, 3. John, 4. James, son of Zebedee,5. Thomas, 6. James, son of Alphaeus, 7. Philip, 8. Bartholomew, 9. Matthew, 10. Simon the Zealot, 11. Jude Thaddaeus, 12. Matthias.
Benedetto di Bindo, Articles of the Creed, 1412
15th-century Flemish tapestry illustrating the first four articles of the Creed