3. Wife: Espoused saint (1) means 'blessed wife.' In seventeenth-century Protestant terms, the word saint refers, not to someone who has been canonized by the Roman Catholic Church, like Mother Theresa, but to any blessed (sanctified) soul in heaven. Members of some Protestant groups still refer to themselves as "Saints." In America, for example, the Mormons call themselves "the Church of the Latter Day Saints."