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veneration

the act of honoring a saint, a person who has been identified as having a high degree of sanctity or holiness
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veneration

Summary

veneration ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (37 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • veneration is a type of adoration[2].
  • veneration is a type of respect[3].
  • veneration is a type of cult[4].
  • veneration's Commons category is recorded as Saints[5].
  • veneration's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Veneration[6].
  • veneration's intangible cultural heritage status is recorded as National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France[7].
  • veneration's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[8].
  • veneration's P14483 is recorded as l/la-falacia-de-que-los-catolicos-tratan-a-los-santos-como-a-dioses[9].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include adoration[2], respect[3], and cult[4].

Why It Matters

veneration ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (37 views/month).[1] veneration has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] veneration is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6h ago · Charp238 · 2026-10-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopædia britannica online id → topic/veneration-of-the-saints, topic/veneration, topic/cult-of-saints
    Pactols thesaurus id → pcrtLfjY6YS0IG
    Image → Lisieux, Basilique de Sainte-Thérèse03.jpg
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → 3542265
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbmergeitems-from:0||Q108702840 */"
  2. 17d ago · Charp238 · 2026-09-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14483 → l/la-falacia-de-que-los-catolicos-tratan-a-los-santos-como-a
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P14483]]: l/la-falacia-de-que-los-catolicos-tratan-a-los-santos-como-a-dioses"
  3. 16w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0008847-kult-svatych
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0008847-kult-svatych, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 18w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Intangible cultural heritage status → National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → adoration, respect, cult
    + 2 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007551170605171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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