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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

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

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

From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2022

Annyway, I'll give um full absolution, so that death can't hurt um sariously, an' I'll canonize him as a martyr.

From Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature 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

Pope Benedict swiftly canonizes a deserving trio of new saints.

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 Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024

The women behind “Turning the Tables” have been publicly keeping track of albums they omitted, with input from women outside NPR — open source canonizing.

From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2017

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

He became the hero of the people, who went near to canonizing him after his death.

From Signs of Change by Morris, William