Crossword-Solution: SAINTED 7 letters, 52 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands." Er," Magnus said. "Are you quite all right?""I was simply overcome," Imasu said in a faint voice. Magnus preened slightly. "Ah. Well.""By how awful that was," Imasu said. Magnus blinked. "Pardon?""I can't live a lie any longer!" Imasu burst out. "I have tried to be encouraging. Dignitaries of the town have been sent to me, asking me to plead with you to stop. My own sainted mother begged me, with …

It is but another instance of injustice, Fray Felipe said. For twenty years we, of the missions, have been subjected to it, and it grows. The sainted Junipero Serra invaded this land when other men feared, and at San Diego de Alcala he built the first mission of what became a chain, thus giving an empire to the world. Our mistake was that we prospered. We did the work, and others reap the advantages. They began taking out mission-lands from us, lands we had cultivated, which …

I think there's a mythology that if you want to change the world, you have to be sainted, like Mother Teresa or Nelson Mandela or Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Ordinary people with lives that go up and down and around in circles can still contribute to change.