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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

My dear girl, don't canonize me on that account!

From The Top of the World by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

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

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

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

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

Adherents follow a canonized, common form of the hadith and interpretation of the Quran, although different schools of law exist that provide variable interpretation and guidance to the religious faithful.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Mamita, furious at hearing her husband canonized at her expense, took her revenge.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Advocates in the fight against child sex trafficking, by contrast, take issue with the film for canonizing the controversial operations of Ballard and his former organization, Operation Underground Railroad.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2023

The process for canonizing that priest, the Rev. Leon Dehon, had begun more than 40 years earlier.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2019

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

The pope’s visit will start in Sri Lanka, where he is canonizing the Blessed Joseph Vaz, soon to be Sri Lanka’s first saint, and meet the local clergy as well as other religious leaders.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2015

The Church showed due gratitude by canonizing many noble and deeply pious women of the time.

From Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) by Hermann Schoenfeld