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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

Kidder wasn’t necessarily looking for another Ivy League-educated doctor to canonize.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2023

Except in the case of new songs, do let us off with the chord, and we'll canonize you as a model of self-restraint and good sense.

From Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers by Amos R. Wells

—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

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

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 Elbert Hubbard

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

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

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 6, 2019

I wholeheartedly concur that Mr. McCain deserves honoring, but canonizing him, as the media and the political elite seem to be doing, is going way too far.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2018

Because it’s precious or rare or not meant for the people who tend to do the canonizing.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2018

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