List of child saints

[45] In some instances promotion of a cult may have been influenced by the interest of local clergy to enhance the prestige of their church with a shrine.

Anthony Bale suggests this, and local politics, may have been contributing factors to the cult of Robert of Bury.

[46] Simon of Trent and Werner of Oberwesel[47][48] are other examples of individuals who died under unknown circumstances, but whose deaths were nonetheless attributed to the Jews.

[49] Over time, the issue of the rush to sainthood was raised, and Hugh was never canonised,[50] nor included in Catholic martyrology.

In the case of Dominguito del Val,[51] and Andreas Oxner,[52] and the Holy Child of La Guardia it is not clear that the alleged victim ever existed in the first place.