What is a fool‐saint?

While there, he also visits the Catholic priest Father Regan, and asks how he might secure Mrs. Dempster recognition as a saint. The priest merely laughs at his suggestion, insisting that only the Roman Catholic Church can investigate potential saints. Further, he writes off Dunstan's claims - according to him, Willie had never actually died, and Dunstan's battlefield vision must have been an injury induced delusion. At best, he allows that Mrs. Dempster is a “fool-saint”, merely a perceived saint that really amounts to nothing (139).