Noun

• S: (n) saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
• S: (n) saint, holy man, holy person, angel (person of exceptional holiness)
• S: (n) ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch (model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal)

Verb

• S: (v) enshrine, saint (hold sacred)
• S: (v) canonize, canonise, saint (declare (a dead person) to be a saint) "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"