saint vs St. Athanasius

saint and St. Athanasius both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
saint	Yes	No	Yes	No
St. Athanasius	Yes	No	No	No

saint (noun)	St. Athanasius (noun)
person of exceptional holiness	(Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373)
model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization

saint (verb)	St. Athanasius (verb)
declare (a dead person) to be a saint
hold sacred