Canonization
Declaration that a deceased person is an officially recognized saint / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Canonization (disambiguation).
Canonization is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized saint,[1] specifically, the official act of a Christian communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints,[2] or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.[3][4]
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