If we accept the former of the two remaining hypotheses, we can understand how love and gratitude, together with sorrow, led Hadrian to canonise Antinous.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds
She spoke coldly, with the familiar feeling of repugnance reawakened by his effort to canonise her afresh.
"A Romance of Wastdale"
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
He told me yesterday, that when his largest cat is dead he will canonise her, in spite of the Christians!
"Antonina"
Wilkie Collins