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
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
Outside the Church of Our Lady of Candelaria in Caracas, thousands of people watched the canonization ceremony in Rome -- about dawn in Venezuela -- on a large screen.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2025
Also worthy of canonization: Larry Graham’s thrumming one-note bass line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 10, 2025
The elfin nun from Santo Domingo is crazy about saints, often identifying the holy ones long before the Vatican even contemplates their canonization.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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