It is obviously not impossible in the sense that millions of perfectly normal people, few of them saintly, in fact achieve it.
He is a man of known moderation, and in a moment of weakness one might say that he is of saintly appearance.
Martyrs, even if not very saintly ones, are rarely worth making.
But it is a much more serious thing that a man of his saintly character should do things which deserve imprisonment.
We may have been saintly and tried as hard as possible to ignore those comments, but we had heard them.
The problem is that saintly actions, which often involve forgoing one's own well-being for the sake of others, may be self-defeating when we have perfect enforcement of moral norms.
And he has that feeling about life, something of course which is saintly.
He was immensely popular and held in almost saintly regard by the majority of the people.
