canonize

How To Use canonize In A Sentence

• From soon after his death posthumous miracles had begun to be attributed to him, and he was officially canonised by Pope John XXII in 1320.
• Beatification is the last step on the road to sainthood, although not all those who are beatified are finally canonised. John Paul II to be beatified in Rome
• His works on religion were regarded as canonized books.
• So the researchers believe that one artist painted Madonna and one canonized pair, while three other artists composed the remaining faces.
• Joan of Arc was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in 1920.
• There are many (questionless) canonized on earth, that shall never be saints in heaven; and have their names in histories and martyrologies, who, in the eyes of God, are not so perfect martyrs as was that wise heathen Socrates, that suffered on a fundamental point of religion, — the unity of God. Religio Medici
• He was canonized in 1494 and named a Doctor of the Church in 1720.
• The possibility that his words may be heeded was suggested by the church's decision in 2000 to canonize six men who had signed the letters.
• Of course, in its new incarnation, the book is no longer "real" pulp - printed on the cheapest paper, sold for a pittance - but a kind of canonised and reified pulp, beautifully produced and, at Rs. 195, priced the same as an average paperback. The Middle Stage
• After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized.