Saint

For Rhea's class in Three Houses and Warriors: Three Hopes, see Saint (Three Houses).

Saint Laura as a Saint in Radiant Dawn. Enlightened clergy granted power over mighty light magic and staves. They employ the skill Corona.

Unit type(s) Infantry Weapon(s) White magic, black magic (Gaiden, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) Light, staff (Radiant Dawn) Skill(s) Restores 5 HP to adjacent allies (Gaiden) Shove, Corona (Radiant Dawn) Soothing Light, Absolve (Echoes: Shadows of Valentia)

The Saint (Japanese: 聖者 Saint) is an advanced magical class which was introduced in Fire Emblem Gaiden. In Gaiden and its remake, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia, it is the promoted form of the Cleric, available only to women, and primarily emphasizes white magic with access to black magic. In Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, it is a rare third-tier promoted class and the final stage in the class change line for the Priest, and is now a gender-neutral class. Promoting from the Bishop class, it uses both light magic and staves.

Saints are designed to mainly take advantage of supporting their allies from behind the front lines through their white magic and staves. Their most outstanding feature is their exceptionally high resistance, the strongest of their stats; they also possess high magic and good skill and speed, ensuring that if necessary they are competent fighters in and of themselves. However, their HP and defense are lacking like most magical classes, rendering them frail and vulnerable to physical assaults even compared to other magical classes.

Stats

Base stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Gaiden	30	--	10	1	2	0	8	3	5	--	Black magic, white magic
Radiant Dawn (Male)	43	5	20	16	18	0	9	23	6	10	C A
Radiant Dawn (Female)	42	5	21	16	18	0	8	24	6	6	C A
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	30	10	--	7	8	0	5	8	5	--

Max stats

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Movement	Constitution	Weapon level
Gaiden	52	--	40	40	40	40	40	40	--	--	Black magic, white magic
Radiant Dawn (Male)	50	25	36	30	30	35	22	40	20	99	SS SS
Radiant Dawn (Female)	45	23	38	30	31	40	21	40	20	99	SS SS

Miscellaneous data

Game	Tier	Movement type	Weakness	Experience	CRP	Gold	Vision	Weight mod.	Capacity	Size	Unit type
Gaiden	--	--	--	30	7	--	--	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn	--	--	--	--	--	--	4	+0	60	--	--
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	--	--	--	30	2	--	--	--	--	--	--

Class growth rates

Game	HP	Strength	Magic	Skill	Speed	Luck	Defense	Resistance	Charm	Constitution*	Movement*	Weapon level
Gaiden	150%	--	50%	50%	50%	0%	50%	0%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn (Male)	50%	15%	55%	30%	40%	50%	15%	55%	--	--	--	--
Radiant Dawn (Female)	60%	30%	35%	30%	60%	75%	20%	60%	--	--	--	--
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Player)	−10%	0%	--	0%	0%	5%	−10%	2%	--	--	--	--
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (Enemy)	120%	50%	--	50%	50%	0%	50%	0%	--	--	--	--

See class growth rate for more details on the mechanics of class growths in each game.

Class skills

Game	Skill	Learning conditions
Radiant Dawn	Shove	Innate.
Radiant Dawn	Corona	Innate (Mastery skill).
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	Soothing Light	Innate.
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia	Absolve	Innate.

Gaiden: At the beginning of each turn, a Saint will restore 5 HP to any allies standing adjacent to her.

Class change

Gaiden

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class
Cleric	After reaching level 12, at any Mila Shrine.	Saint

Radiant Dawn

Base class	Promotion method	Advanced class	Promotion method	Master class
Priest	Using a  Master Seal after reaching level 10, or reaching level 21.	Bishop	Using a  Master Crown after reaching level 10, or reaching level 21.	Saint

Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

Trainee-like class	Method	Base class	Method	Advanced class	Method	Master class
Villager	After reaching level 3, at any Mila Shrine.	Cleric	After reaching level 12, at any Mila Shrine.	Saint	After reaching level 20, at the Altar of the Faerie.	Exemplar

Playable Saints

Playable units
Name	Game
Tatiana	Gaiden, Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Oliver	Radiant Dawn
Shade	Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Playable Saint units in the Fire Emblem series.

Notable enemy Saints

Enemy units
Name	Game
Oliver	Radiant Dawn
Lekain	Radiant Dawn
Hetzel	Radiant Dawn
Shade	Echoes: Shadows of Valentia
Enemy Saint units in the Fire Emblem series.

Flavor text

Game	Text (English)	Text (Japanese)
Radiant Dawn (class roll)	The most devoted form of priest, unsurpassed in staves and light magic. They wield the skill Corona.	悟りの境地に達した聖職者 高位の杖と光魔法を扱える 奥義【暁光】の使い手
Radiant Dawn (help)	Enlightened clergy granted power over mighty light magic and staves. They employ the skill Corona.	悟りの境地に達した聖職者 高位の杖と光魔法を扱える 奥義【暁光】の使い手
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (class roll)	Pure maidens who serve the gods. While not strong fighters, they are valued by allies for their powerful healing magic.	神に仕える きよらかな乙女。 戦闘能力こそ 高くはないものの、 強大な癒やしの力で 仲間たちを 頼もしく支援する。
Echoes: Shadows of Valentia (help)	A pure maiden with powerful healing magic.	強大な癒やしの力を持つ 清らかな乙女

Trivia

• In Gaiden, Saints are internally the same class as Bonewalkers; whether a unit is a Saint or a Bonewalker is determined by its affiliation.
• The Saint is one of only five playable classes in Radiant Dawn whose members can achieve multiple SS levels. The others are the Light Priestess, Vanguard, Chancellor, and Black Knight. Of these classes, the Saint is the only one which is not exclusive to a single character.
• In Radiant Dawn's class roll, the Saint class is erroneously referred to as "Sage".

Etymology and other languages

Names, etymology, and in other regions
Language	Name	Definition, etymology, and notes
English	Saint	In Christian theology, a saint is a holy figure, formerly a deceased human, who is venerated for having lived as an exemplary example of Christian conduct and worship. Most other religious traditions have their own figures with a similar status, who are also occasionally called saints in English-language discussion.
Japanese	• 聖女 • 聖者 (セイント	• Saint, specifically a female saint. The class is known by this name only in Gaiden and its remake. In Gaiden, it is rendered as せいじょ. • Officially romanized as Saint; unlike in Gaiden, this name—used only in Radiant Dawn—refers to saints of any gender, not just female. In Radiant Dawn, all Japanese class names are spelled primarily in kanji (i.e. 聖者), with a foreign-language name in katakana applied as furigana (i.e. セイント) and used as the basis for the romanized name in the class roll.
Spanish	• Santo • Santa	• Saint; Used in Radiant Dawn. • Saint (feminine); Used in Shadows of Valentia, in line with being a female-only class in those games.
French	• Saint • Sainte	• Saint; Used in Radiant Dawn. • Saint (feminine); Used in Shadows of Valentia, in line with being a female-only class in those games.
German	• Gesegneter • Gesegnete	• Blessed one; Used in Radiant Dawn. • Blessed one (feminine); Used in Shadows of Valentia, in line with being a female-only class in those games.
Italian	• Santo • Santa	• Saint; Used in Radiant Dawn. • Saint (feminine); Used in Shadows of Valentia, in line with being a female-only class in that game.
Dutch	Heilige	Saint
Korean	성녀	Holy woman
Simplified Chinese	圣女	Holy woman
Traditional Chinese	聖女	Holy woman

Gallery

Portraits

• 
  The generic Saint portrait in Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.

Screenshots

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  Laura as a Saint in Radiant Dawn.
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  Rhys as a Saint in Radiant Dawn.
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  Oliver as a Saint in Radiant Dawn.

See also

• Light Priestess

This article is part of Project Classes, a project focused in writing articles for every class present in the Fire Emblem series.