canonization

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It was Feb. 11, 2013, and Chirri was watching closed-circuit television coverage of Pope Benedict XVI presiding over a pro-forma meeting of cardinals to set dates for three upcoming canonizations.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 1, 2023

Although canonizations, apart from a few exceptions, are typically held in Rome, it was only recently that beatifications began to be held outside of Rome, in the local Church which promoted the new Blessed’s cause.

From Washington Times • Apr. 21, 2017

If you consider that one of Francis’s canonizations involved 813 15th-century Italian martyrs, he may even hold the record — a record the pope is said to have jokingly embraced.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2016

The canonizations of the two Palestinians were the first of their kind "since the days of the apostles," Twal said.

From New York Times • May 17, 2015

But they reckon much more on the enormous centralization and all-embracing monopoly of all possible dispensations, indulgences, consultations, canonizations, and decisions on moral, liturgical, political, dogmatic and disciplinary questions.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von