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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

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

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2023

Williams is arguably the best candidate for the Heisman Trophy, but to canonize him in such manner is another story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2022

If voluminousness alone made a man a great writer, we should have to canonize Lord Lytton.

From The Art of Letters by Robert Lynd

—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

Pope Benedict swiftly canonizes a deserving trio of new saints.

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

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

Don Orione is another Italian priest, canonized in 2004, who devoted his life to assisting others.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

Nicknamed “God’s influencer,” Carlo was canonized for his internet evangelism, his faith amid fatal sickness and other reasons, including two healing miracles attributed to his posthumous intervention.

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

This year, the league canonized the rivalry, which is said to have begun as geographic, given both teams’ West Coast homes, Reuters reports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2025

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

Zalasiewicz, a geologist at the University of Leicester, has expressed support for canonizing the Anthropocene.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

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