Clara Hale, who began rescuing children off the streets in 1941, has long been a secular saint.

She is elevated to the iconic status of a secular saint and Bill looks like the troublemaker.

She is thus a kind of secular saint.

Gandhi is a kind of secular saint here, but his ideals are admired more in principle than in practice.

If he were killed, ordinary people would wonder why the United States had refused to help a secular saint in his hour of need.

Is the Consul meant to be a kind of secular saint?

I wanted to be a saint, well, a sort of secular saint.

The ranks of secular saints, like those of religious ones, are often filled by martyrs.

Nelson Mandela nearly got to the status of a secular saint, for example.

"They've put a halo around my head and turned me into a sort of secular saint," he said with a slightly embarrassed laugh.