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Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized..

Allhallows :: Allhallows (n.) All Saints' Day, November 1st..

Saint :: Saint (v. i.) To act or live as a saint.

Hallowmas :: Hallowmas (n.) The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows..

Crispin :: Crispin (n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.

Saint :: Saint (n.) One canonized by the church.

Menology :: Menology (n.) A brief calendar of the lives of the saints for each day in the year, or a simple remembrance of those whose lives are not written..

Saintism :: Saintism (n.) The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness..

Apse :: Apse (n.) A reliquary, or case in which the relics of saints were kept..

Calendar :: Calendar (n.) A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter..

Hagiographer :: Hagiographer (n.) One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.

Kyrie Eleison :: Kyrie eleison () Greek words, meaning Lord, have mercy upon us, used in the Mass, the breviary offices, the litany of the saints, etc..

Legend :: Legend (n.) That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses..

Saintish :: Saintish (a.) Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically.

Feretory :: Feretory (n.) A portable bier or shrine, variously adorned, used for containing relics of saints..

Halo :: Halo (n.) A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus..

Hagiology :: Hagiology (n.) The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.

George :: George (n.) A figure of St. George (the patron saint of England) on horseback, appended to the collar of the Order of the Garter. See Garter..

Canonization :: Canonization (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.

Jainism :: "Jainism (n.) The heterodox Hindoo religion, of which the most striking features are the exaltation of saints or holy mortals, called jins, above the ordinary Hindoo gods, and the denial of the divine origin and infallibility of the Vedas. It is intermediate between Brahmanism and Buddhism, having some things in common with each..

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