None. Living people cannot be saints. They have to have been venerated, beatified, and then canonized to become a saint.
Saints make much better role models for the youth of today than many athletes and rock stars. Saints were, for the most part, not involved in drugs, elicit sex and alcohol. Saints lived the Gospel and show us how we should be living our lives. The above named groups generally show us how NOT to live our lives.
Saints are models for us because they are good people
They are not leading their life like us. They are scarifies their normal life and living and serving for others. This is the simple reason you have to remember.
saints teaches us how to live holy lives
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220,000
too many
Sacramentals remind us of things and they symbolize things as well.-Rosary (Reminds us of Mary)-Scapular (Reminds us of Mary)-Candles (Symbolizes Jesus is the light if the world)-Statues of saints (Reminds us of the saints and what they did)-Pictures of saints (Reminds us of the saints and what they did)-Holy water (Reminds us of our baptism)-The crucifix (Reminds us of the death Jesus went through so that we may be saved)To name a few... There are many, many more.
Saints are not worshiped. They are prayed too, to intercede for us. We honor the saints but we worship only God.
The Catholic Church teaches that when Catholics pray to saints, they are asking for their intercession and support, much like asking a friend to pray for you. This practice is based on the belief in the communion of saints, where members of the Church, both living and deceased, are interconnected and can support one another through prayer. It is not a form of worship, as worship is reserved for God alone.
As of 2011, 2,600,000.
Many are.