canonization

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Organized by MoMA’s Ann Temkin and Michelle Kuo and Philadelphia’s Matthew Affron, “Marcel Duchamp” functions as a multi-museum-sanctioned liturgy—the canonization of contemporary art’s high priest, along with his orthodoxy.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

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

Yesenia Angulo, 63, called the canonization a blessing and a miracle.

From Barron's • Oct. 19, 2025

Other Scots were already intending to be in Rome for the canonization of teenage saint Carlo Acutis.

From BBC • Apr. 25, 2025

In Rome the advocatus diaboli, or devil’s advocate, had been established as early as 1587 to test the evidence adduced in support of the miracles claimed for those proposed for canonization.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton