canonization
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We’ve come for the smaller festival, San Fermín Txikito, held each Fall to commemorate the saint’s original canonization, before the Summer celebrations stole Hemingway’s heart and the international spotlight.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
An essential biography, “The Woman of Her Age” by Fiona Maddocks, followed Hildegard’s canonization by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025
Last week she celebrated an event whose significance in her beleaguered land extends well beyond the spiritual: the canonization by Pope Leo XIV of two of her compatriots, the first Catholic saints in Venezuelan history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Church bells rang out and fireworks burst in the sky Sunday as Venezuela -- mired in crisis -- welcomed the canonization of two of its people as saints.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2025
And then I can return, triumphant, your relics in my arms, and shepherd you through the canonization process myself!
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
