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canonisation

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Noun1.canonisation - (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints
canonization
sanctification - a religious ceremony in which something is made holy
Church of Rome, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Roman Catholic - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
Eastern Church, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic Church, Orthodox Church - derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites


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Vatican City -- Pope Benedict XVI has authorized the canonisation of four new saints.
New saints and blesseds by Catholic Insight
La saintete en Occident aux derniers siecles du Moyen Age: d'apres les proces de canonisation et les documents hagiographiques.
Out of the Margins: Religion and the Church in Renaissance Italy [*] by PETERSON, DAVID S. / Renaissance Quarterly
He worked a miracle cure on the son of a local noblewoman earning his canonisation, and in her gratitude she gave him the land where he founded a religious settlement in AD 310.
Crossing the border by Jones, Peter Blundell / The Architectural Review
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