Translation examples
(Herr Jagerstatter was under consideration for canonisation when the Vatican was looking urgently for a Holocaust martyr in the 1980s, and having difficulty in coming up with one.
(El Vaticano estudió la conveniencia de canonizar a Herr Jagerstatter cuando en la década de 1980 necesitaba con urgencia a un mártir del Holocausto y tenía dificultades para encontrar uno.
In 1947, with a couple of business partners, he created Ediciones Ariadna, a publishing company with offices in Madrid and Barcelona mostly devoted to his self-promotion, which the press spared no effort in canonising as the ‘most prestigious editorial brand’ in Spanish literature.
En 1947, con un par de socios, creaba la Sociedad General de Ediciones Ariadna con oficinas en Madrid y Barcelona, que la prensa se afanaba en canonizar como la «marca de prestigio» de las letras españolas.
When the Church is asked to canonise thieves, it prefers the kind that rob from the poor.’ ‘You’re right: Jesus even said as much, render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s.’ ‘Yes, but Caesar was alive and he must have had an idea of what should be done with the money.
«Creo que no, Dani, puesta a canonizar ladrones, la Iglesia prefiere los que le roban a los pobres». «Tenés razón: hasta Jesús lo dijo, al César lo que es del César». «Sí, pero César estaba vivo y seguro que tenía alguna idea de qué hacer con las monedas.
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