The exclusion of a saint's name from religious calendars
Icon of Anna of Kashin (mid-17th century), decanonized in 1677–1678
Decanonization or de-canonization (prefix de- ← Latin : de preposition : down, from, away [ 1] [ 2] + Latin : canonizatio ← Greek : κανών – list, catalog[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] ) – exclusion of a person's name from the list, catalog; the opposite of canonization . The list or catalog is the calendar of the saints[ 8] [ 9] or the church calendar . Decanonization, the exclusion of the saint's name from the calendars, was carried out in the Russian Orthodox Church ,[ 10] [ 11] in the Catholic Church [ 12] [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] and in the Anglican Church .[ 16] [ 17]
^ Walter William Skeat . An etymological dictionary of the English language. Oxford /England : Clarendon Press / de- (prefix) – p. 154.
^ Charles Annandale . The Imperial Dictionary Of The English Language. Vol 1 / 1905 / p. 669. – De- (de) – A commons prefix in English words, representing in most the Latin de , from, away from, down from
^ История канонизации святых в русской церкви / Голубинский Е. Е. , заслуж. орд. проф. Моск. духовной акад. – 2-е изд., испр. и доп. – Москва : Имп. О-во истории и древностей рос. при Моск. ун-те, 1903. – 600 с. – С. 11.
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^ CANON // Catholic Encyclopedia , Volume 3; 1913. – P. 255–256. – The name Canon (κανών) means a norm or rule; and it is used for various objects, such as the Canon of Holy Scripture, canons of Councils, the official list of saints' names (whence "canonization") , and the canon or list of clerks who serve a certain church, from which they themselves are called canons (canonici).
^ Canonization Christianity // Encyclopædia Britannica – Canonization, official act of a Christian communion – mainly the Roman Catholic Church but also the Eastern Orthodox Church – declaring one of its deceased members worthy of public cult and entering his or her name in the canon, or authorized list, of that communion’s recognized saints .
^ Charles Annandale . The Imperial Dictionary Of The English Language. Vol 1 / 1905 / p. 386. – Canon – A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church
^ James A. H. Murray . A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society. Volume II: C (1893)./ p. 76 – Canonization – The action of canonizing; esp. formal admission into the calendar of saints.
^ Charles Annandale . The Imperial Dictionary Of The English Language. Vol 1 / 1905 / p. 386. – Canonization – The act of canonizing a person, the act of ranking a deceased person in the catalogue of saints, called a canon.
^ Religion and the Early Modern State Views from China, Russia, and the West./ James D. Tracy, Marguerite Ragnow. 2004 / p. 277
^ Making martyrs East & West : canonization in the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches / Cathy Caridi. – DeKalb, Ill. : NIU press, cop. 2016 / p. 135
^ Summon's Miscellany of Saints and Sinners// Parminder Summon / 2005 / p. 37
^ Packy Jim Folklore and Worldview on the Irish Border / Ray Cashman. 2016 / p. 182
^ Afterlives of the Saints. Stories from the Ends of Faith / Colin Dickey. 2012
^ Catholicism Today. An Introduction to the Contemporary Catholic Church / Evyatar Marienberg. 2014
^ The Oxford Dictionary of Saints, Fifth Edition Revised / David Farmer, David Hugh Farmer. 2011 / p. xvi
^ Richard Utz. The Medieval Myth of Jewish Ritual Murder: Toward a History of Literary Reception // Edited by Gwendolyn Morgan The Year’s Work in Medievalism. – BOZEMAN, MONTANA: Montana State University, 1999. – Vol. XIV. – p. 22–42.