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We do not know who the real authors of the four New Testament gospels were, since the gospels were all written anonymously, meaning that these authors are not canonised saints. However, once the decision was made that the four gospels were probably written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, it was natural that the early Christians would want to honour these men as saints. In the earliest days of Christianity, this was effectively by acclamation, but in later centuries saints could only be canonised by a bishop and even later, in Western Europe, by the pope.

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