09 — Veneration and the Orthodox Reception

The feast of 6 June — older than the legendary Vita — and the place of pre-schism Western saints like Claudius in the modern Orthodox reception: the ecclesiology of the undivided Church, the restoration movement centered on St. John of Shanghai, and where St. Claude stands within it.

File	Description
feast-and-veneration.md	The feast of 6 June, fixed by the ninth-century martyrologies; the Western veneration; the verified Orthodox commemoration as “St. Claude the Wonderworker,” with its limits honestly noted
the-pre-schism-western-saints.md	The undivided-Church principle; St. John (Maximovitch) and the restoration; ROCOR, the 2017 Moscow act, and the calendars; where St. Claude stands; the theology of the reception

See Also

• 07 — The Incorrupt Relics — the saint’s veneration after the relic’s loss
• St. John of Shanghai: the Restoration of the Western Saints — the parallel treatment
• The Pre-Schism Church — the undivided first-millennium Church
• Master README — the collection overview