St. Thomas’s Anglican Church. Even Matthias, the apostle chosen to replace Judas, gets into the act with St. Matthias’s Church in Sydney, Australia. And, of course, standing above them all in eminence is St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. Today, outside the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions, the word saint is seldom used. But when it is, it is most often used to describe a person (usually elderly) of unusually godly character. Someone might say, “If there ever was a saint, it is my grandmother.”