The third test—holiness of life—is still harder to determine. Holiness can be expressed in more than one way, such as by gentleness toward one’s opponents (owing to love for the persons involved) as well as by harshness toward them (owing to love for the truths that they are denying). Both those who displayed their holiness by being kind and those who displayed it by being harsh came to be regarded as Church Fathers. If a person has been given the title “Saint,” it is an indicator that he left a