Canonization | Meaning, History, Process, Definition, Saints . . . St Teresa of Calcutta Mother Teresa died in 1997, and her cause for canonization was opened only two years later—an unusually short interval after a person's death before beginning the canonization process She was beatified in 2003 and was canonized as St Teresa of Calcutta in 2016
canonize - Wiktionary, the free dictionary canonize (third-person singular simple present canonizes, present participle canonizing, simple past and past participle canonized) (transitive, American spelling, Oxford British English) (chiefly Roman Catholicism) To declare (a deceased person) as a saint, and enter them into the canon of saints synonym, antonym quotations Synonym: saint