saint vs St. James

saint and St. James both are nouns.

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

saint (noun)	St. James (noun)
person of exceptional holiness	(New Testament) disciple of Jesus; brother of John; author of the Epistle of James in the New Testament
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. James (verb)
declare (a dead person) to be a saint
hold sacred