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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

The violence and corruption of such rulers as Argall serve to disgrace and defeat even good measures; while the virtues of the good are sometimes perverted to canonize the most pernicious.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

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

The writer degrades no saints, he canonizes no villains.

From Freaks of Fortune or, Half Round the World by Oliver Optic

The Catholic Church declared Archbishop Fulton Sheen “blessed” in St. Louis on Thursday, placing him one step away from becoming the first bishop born in America to be canonized a saint.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Where might civil rights for Black people be today without the influence of these canonized Black celebrities?

From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2025

In 2016, Francis canonized Argentina’s first saint: José Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, a poncho-wearing, mate-sipping “gaucho priest” who ministered in the Argentine peripheries, and was in many ways a 19th-century version of Francis himself.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

As someone who wrote about beauty, I was interested in how it canonized certain products like French girl pharmacy products, cult things you’d have to be a real beauty nerd to be into.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 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

Tom Kenny is canonizing a popular “SpongeBob SquarePants” fan theory.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2019

Perhaps the director Jim Jarmusch was worried that the bad behavior would detract from his efforts at canonizing Iggy Pop’s group, the Stooges, which he calls “the greatest rock ’n’ roll band ever.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 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 William Morris