canonize
verb (used with object)
to place in the canon of saints.
canonized
Example Sentences
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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
