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Memes, livestreams and hashtags now allow anyone to canonize someone they admire.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025

“It’s a gift of God that Pope Francis — an Argentine pope, a Jesuit pope — can canonize her,” he said.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2024

Kidder wasn’t necessarily looking for another Ivy League-educated doctor to canonize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Although some on the committee seem ready to canonize the fasting girl, others are more skeptical.

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

If you remain moderately virtuous, we will canonize you.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 by Various

In the afternoon, he celebrates Mass and canonizes the Rev. Junípero Serra, the first canonization in the United States.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015

For all his popularity, Francis will fuel a controversy on Wednesday when he canonizes Father Junipero Serra, an 18th century Franciscan missionary who established the California mission system that helped transform the West.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2015

Surprising many, Benedict also canonizes Tami Taylor, though she is not Catholic and is in fact a fictional character.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2013

On September 4, Mother Teresa will be elevated to sainthood when Pope Francis canonizes her at the Vatican.

From National Geographic

After they are dead the world sometimes canonizes them and carves on their tombs the word "Savior."

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 02 Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women by Elbert Hubbard

The Catholic Church declared Archbishop Fulton Sheen “blessed” in St. Louis on Thursday, placing him one step away from becoming the first bishop born in America to be canonized a saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

It sparked debates up and down the Golden State as many people at the time still held a high regard for the Franciscan priest who was canonized in 2015.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 21, 2026

Catholic school nuns practically canonized John F. Kennedy, never ceasing to remind us students that he was the first Catholic President.

From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2024

Adherents follow a canonized, common form of the hadith and interpretation of the Quran, although different schools of law exist that provide variable interpretation and guidance to the religious faithful.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Advocates in the fight against child sex trafficking, by contrast, take issue with the film for canonizing the controversial operations of Ballard and his former organization, Operation Underground Railroad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

The process for canonizing that priest, the Rev. Leon Dehon, had begun more than 40 years earlier.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2019

I wholeheartedly concur that Mr. McCain deserves honoring, but canonizing him, as the media and the political elite seem to be doing, is going way too far.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2018

Because it’s precious or rare or not meant for the people who tend to do the canonizing.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2018

Originally, every bishop had the privilege of canonizing saints, or declaring them entitled to the honors which the Catholic church bestows on her saints.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler