The Devil's Advocate was a position in the Catholic Church to argue against sainthood for a candidate. Was this person ever successful in getting a pope to decide against sainthood?

by Mapuches_on_Fire
mikedash

While there is always more to say, I offered an answer to this question in an earlier response, explaining why it fundamentally misunderstands the function of the Devil's Advocate, and you can review that thread here:

Do we know of any cases in the Catholic Church when the Advocatus Diaboli (or Devil's Advocate) successfully argued against someone becoming a saint?

You might like to take a look while you wait for fresh answers to your query.

enemyoftime

I was gonna answer this, but...

u/mikedash already wrote a far better answer awhile back.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/87x3dx/do_we_know_of_any_cases_in_the_catholic_church/