Celestine V, a hermit who founded the religious order that bears his name, was later canonized.

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Steve Jobs has been virtually canonized in the tech press and the popular imagination.

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He was so famed for his sanctity that he was canonized just two years after his death in 1226.

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The public earnestly puzzled over his theories, elevated him into a cult of genius, and canonized him as a secular saint.

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The first pontiff from South America also canonized another Latin American woman.

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Within two years of his death, he was canonized, and work began on the basilica to be raised in his honor in Assisi.

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In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI canonized the first Brazilian-born saint, St.

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Although not canonized until 1807, Europe's first black saint, St.

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But if you ignored it, if you went instead to the correct places and gave yourself up to the contemplation of canonized vistas, your experience of Niagara would be sublime.

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In 2002, the John Paul II canonized the first Native American saint, Juan Diego, a 15th century Indian whose vision of the Virgin of Guadalupe is emblematic of the Catholic faith in Mexico.

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All were canonized in June 1862.

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