Editing Canonization (section)

{{Short description|Declaration that a deceased person is an officially recognized saint}}
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'''Canonization''' is the declaration of a deceased person as an officially recognized [[saint]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canonize|title=canonize|website=Dictionary|publisher=Merriam-Webster|access-date=6 July 2020 }}</ref> specifically, the official act of a [[Christianity|Christian]] communion declaring a person worthy of public veneration and entering their name in the canon catalogue of saints,<ref>[[Charles Annandale]]. ''[[The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language]]'', Volume 1; 1905. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.83696/page/n409/mode/2up P. 386. '''Canon – A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church'''.]</ref> or authorized list of that communion's recognized saints.<ref>CANON // [[Catholic Encyclopedia]], Volume 3; 1913. – P. 255–256. – [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Catholic_Encyclopedia,_volume_3.djvu&page=303 ''The name '''Canon (κανών)''' means a norm or rule; and it is''] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Catholic_Encyclopedia,_volume_3.djvu&page=304 ''used for various objects, such as the Canon of Holy Scripture, canons of Councils, '''the official list of saints' names (whence "canonization")''', and the canon or list of clerks who serve a certain church, from which they themselves are called canons (canonici).'']</ref><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/canonization|title=Canonization|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|access-date=6 July 2020 }}</ref>