Descanonización

Also known as de-canonization

thumb|Icon of Anna of Kashin (mid-17th century), decanonized in 1677–1678 and re-canonized in 1909 Decanonization or de-canonization (prefix de- ←   preposition: down, from, away + ← – list, catalog) is the exclusion of a person's name from a list or catalog of saints; it is the opposite of canonization. Decanonization, the exclusion of a saint's name from the church calendar, was carried out in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Catholic Church and in the Anglican Church.