Veneration is a religious symbolic act giving honor to someone by honoring an image of that person, particularly applied to saints
The act of venerating, or the state of being venerated; the highest degree of respect and reverence; respect mingled with awe; a feeling or sentimental excited by the dignity, wisdom, or superiority of a person, by sacredness of character, by consecration to sacred services, or by hallowed associations
If you venerate someone or something, you value them or feel great respect for them. My father venerated General Eisenhower. = revere + venerated ven·er·at·ed Jerusalem is Christianity's most venerated place. + veneration ven·era·tion Churchill was held in near veneration during his lifetime. to honour or respect someone or something because they are old, holy, or connected with the past (past participle of venerari, from venus )