That’s why a person like Father Baker will be called “venerable” — because they lived a holy and dedicated to Christ life.
Then the other two steps of the canonization process follow. But the person is obviously a very holy and righteous person to begin with.
I think this is a vocabulary difference — don’t Protestants tend to call everyone a saint?
Whereas Catholics reserve that title for those people through which miracles have happened and a canonization has been performed.
For Catholics, it has a very holy meaning. Not just your everyday sort of thing to say about another normal person.
I can’t speak for others ... I’m just telling you what scripture says. I accept God’s word as to who is a saint- all true believers in Christ.