 However, the use of "saint" as a title for an individual who had led a good and exemplary life or who had been martyred began to develop in Christianity.By the time of the Reformation, the use of "saint" was almost exclusively the restrictive, titular sense.One of the effects of the Reformation was to eliminate the abuses of the cult of saints, and as a result, it is a common misconception that Lutherans do not have (or rather, do not venerate) saints.