What is canonization?
when someone is made a saint by the catholic church. Definitions of Canonization on the Web: * The process by which a Christian becomes a saint. www.translationdirectory.com/glossaries/… * The formal enrolling of a deceased and beatified person in the Roman Catholic canon, or calendar of saints www.innvista.com/culture/religion/dictio… * A solemn definitive act by which the Pope admits a candidate into the calendar of saints. www.ichrusa.com/saintsalive/glossary.htm * (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn * Canonization is the act by which a Christian Church declares some deceased person to be a saint, inscribing that person in the canon, or list, of recognized saints.
