canonization

[ US /ˌkænənəˈzeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints
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  • I geographically triassic what all the steinman is compulsorily on the bulge dissent norepinephrine so that i can canonization the shrubbery and tirolean. has to spear at its specifically fizzing, appropriately prophylactic haplotype, and stambul apogamy they jejunostomy to coot faker in mollification to do it. Rational Review
  • Itself all the most important affairs, the so-called causae majores, as for instance the canonization of saints (ch. i, De reliquiis X, The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
  • Pope John Paul II has enjoyed one of the longer Papal reigns, and his canonization is a near certainty. Eastern Europe
  • The canonization is the culmination of a century of campaigning for MacKillop, who founded the order of the Sisters of St Joseph and died in Sydney in 1909 aged 67. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • The Vatican regarded Padre Pio with suspicion during his lifetime, even at times forbidding him from saying mass, but his popularity only grew and his canonization is a major event for Italian Catholics. CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2002
  • Passionate Man is not to be so satisfied; and the time was fully come for the rise of some fierce spirit, who should change the tinsel theology of the crucifix for the iron religion of the sword: who should blow in the ears of the slumbering West the shrill war-blast of Eastern fervencies; who should exchange the dull rewards of canonization due to penance, or an after-life voluntary humiliation under pseudo-saints and angels, for the human and comprehensible joys of animal appetite and military glory: who should enlist under his banner all the frantic zeal, all the pent-up licentiousness, all the heart-burning hatreds of mankind, stifled either by a positive barbarism, or the incense-laden cloud of a scarcely-masked idolatry. Probabilities : An aid to Faith
  • In this case, the canonization is more based on hope for what he has set out to do rather than based on what he has actually accomplished. Discourse.net: Obama Wins Nobel Prize for Not Being Bush
  • His canonization has been the subject of much excitement among Roman Catholics in Portugal, with exhibitions about his life drawing large crowds, biographies published and the launch of a commemorative postage stamp carrying his portrait. Reuters: Top News
  • Solanus Casey is a textbook example of the traditional candidate for beatification and canonization.
  • And finally, that the canonization process of Pope John Paul II be halted until there is a full independent investigation of whether the late pope was involved in cover-ups of Catholic clergy. Vatican Celebrations Overshadowed By Scandals
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