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IN THE Scriptures, the Greek word rendered “saint” in some versions can be translated “holy one.”
The Bible clearly shows that all anointed Christians were addressed as “holy ones” or “saints” right while they were alive. (See 2 Corinthians 1:1; Ephesians 1:1; Philippians 1:1,. As for intercession, 1 Timothy 2:5 says: “There is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus.” And Jesus himself said: “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”—John 14:6, 14. Sinful man cannot make another human into a saint, only God. Joseph was never mentioned in the bible as a saint. This manmade sainthood is man made ideology.
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If you mean some Roman Catholic figure, the term has a very different meaning in that denomination.