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devil's advocate
(redirected from Advocatus diaboli)

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devil's advocate: see canonization canonization , in the Roman Catholic Church, process by which a person is classified as a saint. It is now performed at Rome alone, although in the Middle Ages and earlier bishops elsewhere used to canonize.
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Candidates for sainthood were represented before the papal court by two spokesmen: the advocatus dei, who made the case for canonization, and the advocatus diaboli, who advanced all conceivable arguments against canonizing the candidate.
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And there had to be a hearing, at which the advocatus Diaboli, or Devil's Advocate, would be appointed by the Church to make the strongest possible case against the nominee.
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