Also, in the " Greater Legend " of St Stephen, written around the time he was canonised ( 1083 ), we learn only that " in the fifth year after the death of his father (...) they brought a Papal letter of blessings (...) and the Lord ’ s favoured one, Stephen, was chosen to be king, and was anointed with oil and fortunately crowned with the diadem of royal honour ".

Though some were of an opinion that Dominic was too young to be canonised, Pope Saint Pius X insisted that this was not so, and started the process of his canonisation.

Æthelberht later was canonised for his role in establishing Christianity among the Anglo-Saxons, as were his wife and daughter.

During Childeric's siege and blockade of Paris in 464, the nun Geneviève ( later canonised as the city's Patron Saint ) pleaded with the Frankish King for the welfare of prisoners of war and met with a favourable response.

It was in this time that a Christian serving as a military officer in the province suffered martyrdom for the sake of his faith, later canonised as Saint Florian.

York had its saint but it took until 1279, when William de Wickwane ( William de Wykewayne ) was elected Archbishop, for the remains of the canonised William to be transferred to a shrine prepared for them behind the high altar.

Saint Margaret was canonised in 1250 by Pope Innocent IV in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity.

It was named for St Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, then newly canonised by Pope Innocent III.

Magnus had a reputation for piety and gentleness and was canonised in 1135.

Oliver Plunkett was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, the first new Irish saint for almost seven hundred years.

Oliver Plunkett was beatified in 1920 and canonised in 1975, the first new Irish saint for almost seven hundred years, and the first of the Irish martyrs to be beatified.

Thomas More and John Fisher, who incurred the wrath of Henry VIII, were subsequently executed, and later canonised as martyrs by the Roman Catholic Church, are also buried here ; Philip Howard, a third saint who suffered under the Tudors, was also buried here for a time before his body was relocated to Arundel.

He was ruthless on the matting in South Africa's first two Test matches in 1888 / 9 ( only canonised as such much later ), taking 15 for 28 in the second Test, of which fourteen were clean bowled.

Breaking with tradition for the sacred prayer, the names of the saints canonised by Pope John Paul II, such as Faustina Kowalska and Josemaría Escrivá, were allowed to be included in the litany.

Several wondrous healings and conversions happened at his grave, so on 5th November 1083 King Ladislaus I unearthed Emeric's bones in a big ceremony, and Emeric was canonised for his pious life and purity along with his father and Bishop Gerhard by Pope Gregory VII.

She was canonised by Benedict XV in 1920, and in 1929 her liturgical commemoration was included in the Roman Catholic calendar of saints for celebration on 17 October, the day of her death.

After her death, she was remembered by her subjects as " Matilda the Good Queen " and " Matilda of Blessed Memory ", and for a time sainthood was sought for her, though she was never canonised.

It is from this line that a Gilbert, whose father was Jocelyn ( an anglo-norman landlord under Gilbert de Gaunt ), became St. Gilbert of Sempringham, canonised by the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Innocent III in 1202, the founder of the only English monastic order ( for men and for women ) in 1148.

So highly though of was Nichols that the following year he played for England in the Ashes series of 1930 but did little ; however, his batting in two Representative Matches ( since canonised as Tests ) in New Zealand had been successful.

After investigation by the Roman Catholic Church John Ogilvie was canonised by Pope Paul VI, in 1976, and he became Scotland's first saint since the reformation and for over 700 years.

" According to historian Piers Brendon, " Orwell was the saint of common decency who would in earlier days, said his BBC boss Rushbrook Williams, ' have been either canonised – or burnt at the stake '".

By the end of the 15th century was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas ( who had been canonised in 1323 and declared " Doctor Angelicus " of the Church in 1567 ) that the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 63 )— which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine — instead declined to take a position.

Sfondrati was an intimate friend and a great admirer of Philip Neri, an Italian priest who died in 1595 and was canonised in 1622.

Sir Thomas More was a particularly notable English recusant and martyr from the 16th century who was later canonised and has descendants to the present day ( through descent from his son John More of Barnborough ) in the families of Eyston and Waterton.

Henry was much taken with the cult of the Anglo-Saxon saint king Edward the Confessor who had been canonised in 1161.

She named the college after one of her father's 13th-century predecessors, Hugh of Avalon, who was canonised in 1220, and in whose diocese Oxford had been.

The bones were not of the 3rd century saint but are believed to be the bones of Lorcán Ua Tuathail, a saint canonised as St. Laurence from Dublin, who died in Normandy in the 12th century.

Mary MacKillop, who co-founded an order of nuns in the 19th century, called the Sisters of St. Joseph, became the first Australian canonised saint of the Catholic Church in October 2010 and Sir Douglas Nicholls, a preacher and Aboriginal rights activist was the first indigenous Australian to be appointed Governor of an Australian State.

Macartney, in his Hungary: A Short History, eulogizes Ladislaus thus: " Ladislas I, who, like Stephen and his son, Imre, was canonised after his death, was the outstanding personality among them: a true paladin and gentle knight, a protector of his faith and his people, and of the poor and defenceless.

* Saint Marcellin Champagnat ( 1789 – 1840 ), a Catholic priest and founding members of the Society of Mary ( Marist Fathers ) who founded the Marist Brothers and was canonised in 1999.

* Thérèse de Lisieux ( 1873 – 1897 ), Roman Catholic nun who was canonised as a saint, and is one of only 33 Doctors of the Church

The abbey was dedicated to Saint Mary and Saint Thomas Becket, who had been canonised in 1172.

Mary MacKillop, who founded an educational religious institute of sisters, the Josephites, in the 19th century, became the first Australian to be canonised as a saint in 2010.

Although yet to be canonised as a saint, Magnus the Pious is revered as ' the Saviour ' by commoner and Grand Theogonist alike, and is regarded by most as the greatest Sigmarite who ever lived.

Thomas Wyatt led an army into London from Kent in 1553, against Mary I. Canterbury became a great pilgrimage site following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket, who was eventually canonised in 1246.

In Putulnacher Itikatha he took on rather savagely the hypocrisy in villages: An elderly couple are canonised as saints after committing morphine-induced suicide ; the daughter of one of the village elders gets married off to a wealthy businessman in Kolkata who treats her as a concubine ... she gets hooked to alcohol and returns home a shadow of her former self.

The novel tells the story of Divine, a drag queen who, when the novel opens, has died of tuberculosis and been canonised as a result.

It is the final resting place of ' Blessed ' Wulfric, who was never formally canonised, and who died 20 February 1154.

A papal inquiry was convened in London on 20 April 1307 to determine whether or not Cantilupe had died excommunicate ; if he had, then he could not be canonised.

All the 37 virgins had been soon canonised by the Armenian Apostolic Church including St. Nune ( St. Nino ).

Agapetus I has been canonised by both the Roman Catholic and Orthodox traditions.

In some cases those adhering to Catholicism faced capital punishment, and a number of English and Welsh Catholics executed in the 16th and 17th centuries have been canonised by the Catholic Church as Christian martyrs ( see Catholic martyrs of the English Reformation ).

Although no official announcement was given, it was reported in December 2011 that Pope Benedict intended to declare Hildegard of Bingen as a Doctor of the Church despite her not yet having been officially canonised.

Joan of Arc was in the news in France after World War I, having been canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in 1920 and adopted as one of the patron saints of France.

Even the third brother, Fulgentius, appointed Bishop of Écija at the first triumph of Catholicism over Arianism, but of whom little is known, has been canonised as a saint.

John was associated with miracles during and after his lifetime, he has since been made a saint when he was canonised by the Catholic Church in 1037.