The phrase "a saint because" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to explain the reason or justification for someone being considered a saint or having saintly qualities.
Example: "She is a saint because she dedicates her life to helping others in need."
Alternatives: "a saint due to" or "a saint on account of".
Bacall doesn't look like a saint, because she isn't one.
I would've made him out to be a saint because otherwise he would have killed me!
"I don't want to paint him as a saint because he's not," she said.
"The ones that are not converted think of him as a very incredible man that has created this institution that has a lot of merit, but they do not see him as a saint, because they have felt his whip.
Watching that noble doctor Bill Frist make his TV rounds last weekend -- I know he's a saint because he keeps telling us so -- I began to think I was going under general anesthesia.
But asked whether Mr. Lieberman's ramrod reputation would keep Mr. Gore from being linked with Mr. Clinton, he made a point echoed by some Democrats, "I don't know that Gore becomes a saint because of Lieberman's virtues".
Not because I'm a saint, but because I think we have to look at the bigger picture.
It is impossible to be a saint here because the moral quandaries are ubiquitous, be it as you pretend to ignore the man with stumps for legs crawling across the market pavements, or you contact a cousin to facilitate a business deal.
We don't exactly think of the father of classical music as a scandalmonger – although, as John Eliot Gardiner's outstanding 2014 biography proves, nor should we think of him as a saint simply because he wrote such sublime music.
He's not actually a saint, but because he died a martyr's death he was subsequently raised to quasi-sainthood.
I refrained from making Mrs Gadny an object of pity, a plaster saint, because I loathed the patronising sentimentality that was then an essential ingredient in fictional depictions of old age.
