Candido dos Reis is one of the canonized saints of the Republic; but I think it shows a good deal of generosity in the Portuguese character that the Devil's Advocate has not made himself heard in the case.

One must go to the Catholic historians, especially the French, to know the details of the lives of those saints whom the Catholic Church has canonized.

It was for his learning and sanctity that he was canonized,and singularly enough by Alexander VI., the worst pope who ever reigned.

His fame was prodigious, both as a dialectician and a saint, and he was in due time canonized as one of the great pillars of the Church, ranking after Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory the Great,the standard authority for centuries of the Catholic theology.

Odo is transmitted to us by the monks under the character of a man of piety; Dunstan was even canonized: and is one of those numerous saints of the same stamp who disgrace the Romish calendar.

She seems to me somewhat like a canonized creature who should all at once come and recount to me the glories of paradise.

If Savonarola had lived in the new era he might have been canonized, but Giordano Bruno was burned.

He may console himself by thinking of the Saints, who also are canonized only after they are dead.

We ask only that we may give, and on none do we bestow more willingly than on the honest Vaudois whom may the saints keep in mind for their kindness and good-will!" "Nay, I will have none of thy saints; thou knowest we are St. Calvin's men in Vaud, if there must be any canonized.

If, before they canonized all these saints, they had consulted their servant, perhaps they would not have found a single one of them.

Writing of this in later years, Dr. Kirk says: "I remember rallying my friend frequently about the experience of great inventors, who are generally permitted to starve while living and are canonized after death.

The Danes had meantime rifled the country with their cross-guns and killed Edmund, the good king of East Anglia, who was afterwards canonized, though gunpowder had not then been invented.

Dunstan died at the age of sixty-three, and years afterwards was canonized; but firearms had not been invented at the time of his death.

He was canonized about a century after his death by the Pope, but as to whether it "took" or not the historian seems strangely dumb.

It is for themselves to decide what shall be said of them hereafter, and through all future time,whether they shall be blessed or banned, cursed or canonized.

Maria Stuart has been canonized, and placed among the martyrs by the Jesuits.

Nay, the answer has already been given from the dark antiquity of ages, that even for her own exceeding loveliness has Truth been canonized.

[120] Louis, Cardinal de Gonzaga, was the last member of the Novellare branch of the illustrious Italian house of Gonzaga, Dukes of Mantua, and was canonized in 1621 under the title of St. Louis de Gonzaga.

I believe there are men that have shown as much self-devotion in carrying a lone wall-flower down to the supper-table as ever saint or martyr in the act that has canonized his name.

Bishop Tanner writes, "Beauchief, an Abbey of Promonstatentian, or White Canons, founded A.D. 1183, by Robert Fitz-Ranulph, Lord of Alfreton, one of the executioners of Thomas à Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, to whom canonized, this monastery was dedicated."

(He was canonized on the 11th of August, 1297; and during twenty-four years nine successive popes had prosecuted the customary inquiries as to his faith and life.)

As for Charlemagne, we must not be too exacting in the way of proofs of his legal right to that title in the Catholic Church; he was canonized, in 1165 or 1166, only by the anti-pope Pascal III., through the influence of Frederick Barbarossa; and since that time, the canonization of Charlemagne has never been officially allowed and declared by any popes recognized as legitimate.

If they wish to be canonized, let them restore the Bourbons, and put themselves lawfully in the way of such a blessing.

The legend says, his sentence was remitted, and he was allowed to go into heaven, and was canonized as a saint.

The Coronation of the Virgin is a strictly devotional subject where she is attended, not merely by angels and patriarchs, but by canonized saints and martyrs, by fathers and doctors of the Church, heads of religious orders in monkish dresses, patrons and votaries.