canonization
Example Sentences
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Last week she celebrated an event whose significance in her beleaguered land extends well beyond the spiritual: the canonization by Pope Leo XIV of two of her compatriots, the first Catholic saints in Venezuelan history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 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
What has been gained and lost by the sacred canonization of Dr. King and his elevation into the pantheon of American heroes?
From Salon • Jan. 15, 2024
The elfin nun from Santo Domingo is crazy about saints, often identifying the holy ones long before the Vatican even contemplates their canonization.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
