canonizations
Official saint proclamations
Canonizations are official declarations by a religious authority—typically the Catholic Church—that a deceased person is a saint.
The process involves investigation of the candidate's life and miracles attributed to their intercession.
By extension, canonization applies to any formal elevation to an authoritative or revered status: the canonizations of certain texts as literary classics.
Declaring someone among blessed
- sainthoodState of being canonized
- sanctificationMaking someone or something sacred
- holinessSacred spiritual purity
- pietySincere religious devotion
devotion · blessedness · righteousness · godliness · martyrdom · miracles · intercession · veneration
Religious journey to shrine
- shrinesSacred devotional sites
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
- prayersReverent petitions to deity
- venerationProfound admiring respect
faithful · worship · adoration · altars · chapels · iconography · feast · novena
Formal event marking occasions
- massQuantity of matter
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- processionFormal moving line
- consecrationDedicating to sacred purpose
pontifical · vestments · incense · altar · blessing · sacrament · papal · decree
High regard, moral dignity
- elevationHeight above reference point
- distinctionNotable difference or honor
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
- declarationFormal public announcement
proclamation · commendation · tribute · glorification · acknowledgment · commemoration · accolade · reverence
beatification
Declaring someone among blessed
- sainthoodState of being canonized
- sanctificationMaking someone or something sacred
- holinessSacred spiritual purity
piety · devotion · blessedness · righteousness · godliness · martyrdom · miracles · intercession · veneration · relics
pilgrimage
Religious journey to shrine
- shrinesSacred devotional sites
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
- prayersReverent petitions to deity
veneration · faithful · worship · adoration · altars · chapels · iconography · feast · novena · prostration
ceremony
Formal event marking occasions
- massQuantity of matter
- liturgyFormal worship structure
- processionFormal moving line
consecration · pontifical · vestments · incense · altar · blessing · sacrament · papal · decree · congregation
honor
High regard, moral dignity
- elevationHeight above reference point
- distinctionNotable difference or honor
- celebrationFestive event marking occasion
declaration · proclamation · commendation · tribute · glorification · acknowledgment · commemoration · accolade · reverence · esteem
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- CatholicismVatican, cardinals, pope, Holy Communion, popes
- Modern ChristianityVatican II, ecumenism, evangelicalism, liberation theology, Billy Graham
- Latin ChurchVatican II, liberation theology, John Paul II, papal visits, catechists
- Vatican documentspapal bulls, encyclicals, Holy See
canonizationsexcommunications
Expulsions from religious membership
condemnations · damnations · denunciations · defrockings · desecrations
canonizationsexcommunications
Expulsions from religious membership
banishments · expulsions · condemnations · denunciations · disavowals
canonizationsdamnatio memoriae
Posthumous erasure from records
erasures · denigrations · vilifications · disgraces · defamations