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Pope Francis has canonized two nuns from what was 19th-century Palestine in hopes of encouraging Christians across the Middle East who are facing a wave of persecution from Islamic extremists.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2015

His Holiness has canonized or beatified 1,441 people, and it seems the church is on a mission to make sure no prayer goes unanswered.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whistler's famed Portrait of the Artist's Mother has canonized Mother; but what about Father?

From Time Magazine Archive

I believe there are men that have shown as much self-devotion in carrying a lone wall-flower down to the supper-table as ever saint or martyr in the act that has canonized his name.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 by Various

One must go to the Catholic historians, especially the French, to know the details of the lives of those saints whom the Catholic Church has canonized.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity by Lord, John