Canonise

Well, the Vatican should shut up; it's quick enough to condemn Jews for defensive action but I seem to recall was utterly silent during one of the worst genocides of the Twentieth Century (and is now actively trying to 'canonise' the one responsible for that so that he could achieve greater Vatican control of its German churches) hadrian ❋ Unknown (2009)

After their death attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonise them, to hallow their names while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarising it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is emphatically not a religion of any single book, notwithstanding recent attempts to canonise works such as the Bhagavad Gita. ❋ Priyamvada Gopal (2010)

When it comes to the prematurely departed the temptation to canonise is even stronger. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Declining the suggestion of setting the story during the Clone Wars perhaps aware that the next movie would likely de-canonise anything major they chose to do, they went back four millennia into the distant past, to the time of the Sith and the Jedi, to the time covered in the popular Tales of the Jedi comic mini-series, and created a new story there. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)

They have fetched Trajanus 'soul out of hell, and canonise for saints whom they list. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It can take a person and canonise them, demonise them, or eulogise them. ❋ Greg Tannahill (2006)

To invite, as does the Windsor document, those provinces to reconsider is not to say that there are no issues to be resolved, no prejudice to be repented of (because there unquestionably is much of this); it is not to reject the idea of an 'inclusive' Church or to canonise an unintelligent reading of the Bible. ❋ Unknown (2005)

A bitter rift has opened in the Russian Orthodox Church over a campaign to canonise Rasputin and Ivan the Terrible. ❋ Unknown (2003)

His story, Vatican resists drive to canonise EU founder recounts how a campaign to sanctify the European Union through the beatification of its founding father, Robert Schuman, has run into stiff resistance from the Vatican and now appears likely to fail. ❋ Richard (2004)

She forgets, or does not know, that Protestantism is a quieter creed than Romanism; as it does not clothe its priesthood in scarlet, so neither does it set up its good women for saints, canonise their names, and proclaim their good works. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Some of these steps we will take are symbolic but, in our efforts to canonise human rights in our international relations, we regard them as far more than this. ❋ Unknown (1994)

"So-called investigations into so-called hit squads in the KZP are seen by ordinary members of Inkatha as part of a master plan to demonise Inkatha and at the same time to canonise other political organisations which were involved in violence before the elections." ❋ Unknown (1994)

Tiberius was to canonise his father, and Augustus was translated to the banquet of the Gods: ❋ Caius Cornelius Tacitus (N/A)

Catholic Church desires to canonise a musical composer, it will find devoutness, humility, and many other saintly characteristics in ❋ Walter Rowlands (N/A)

"The church would always continue to ordain negroes and canonise beggars and labourers." ❋ Maisie Ward (1932)

I dare say no one ever before said a good word for Judas since the day of his death, and this lad would canonise him out of hand. ❋ Harry Leon Wilson (1903)

It is very good of God to permit us to recall it all, to canonise our loved ones in the soft, transfiguring light of retrospect. ❋ 1864-1923 (1902)