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
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
Other Scots were already intending to be in Rome for the canonization of teenage saint Carlo Acutis.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2025
As the ordeal stretched on, there was more canonization.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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