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

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2025

As we posthumously canonize David Lynch, it might be tempting to assume he came out of the womb the supremely confident, eccentric auteur the world became enthralled by in the 1980s and ’90s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 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

It turns out that this massive publicity blitz was built on decades of work—expensive work—to canonize Thomas.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2023

True, the Russians, like the Japanese and early Scandinavians, make saints of their heroes; but we believe they forgot to canonize Peter the Great.

From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou

—Pope Francis announces the revocation of sainthood for Father Junipero Serra and canonizes Huell Howser as California’s patron saint.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2021

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

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2013

A refreshingly direct and amusingly tactless interrogator, he neither sentimentalizes nor canonizes his feisty models, who handle their variously truncated limbs with casual practicality.

From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2010

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

From National Geographic

The writer degrades no saints, he canonizes no villains.

From Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World by Oliver Optic

In 2002, he was canonized by Pope John Paul II, becoming the first Catholic saint from the Americas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

The show’s new profiles include the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint: Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at age 15 in 2006 and was canonized in September by Pope Leo XIV.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025

Where might civil rights for Black people be today without the influence of these canonized Black celebrities?

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025

Known as the “mother of outcasts,” Marianne Cope, who was born in Germany, died at Kalaupapa in 1918 of natural causes and was canonized in 2012.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 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

Tom Kenny is canonizing a popular “SpongeBob SquarePants” fan theory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2019

By canonizing Mother Teresa, he is clearly aiming to give his Holy Year of Mercy an icon for the faithful to venerate around the world.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 18, 2015

Francis has fast-tracked several candidates for sainthood, already canonizing 21 individuals and hundreds of martyrs in just over two years as pontiff.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2015

The hesitation of the earlier Church, however, found no counterpart in the canonizing decree of the Council of Trent; while, on the other hand, Protestant opinion has run almost entirely against canonicity.

From The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney