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Definition of beatify
beatified
;beatifying
transitive verb
1 : to make supremely happy
2 Christianity : to declare to have attained the blessedness of heaven and authorize the title “Blessed” and limited public religious honor She was beatified six years after her death.
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Examples of beatify in a Sentence
She was beatified by the Pope one hundred years after her death.
Recent Examples of beatify from the Web
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Their cousin, Lucia, was beatified in 2008, three years after her death at age 97.
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The two children were beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2000 and Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI went to Fatima in 2010 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their beatification.
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If convinced, the congregation sends the case to the pope, who signs a decree saying the candidate can be beatified.
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In the end, John Paul beat Mother Teresa’s record-fast beatification by just a few days when he was beatified May 1, 2011.
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He will officially be beatified during a Beatification Mass, which will likely happen this fall in Detroit.
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Above him, klieg lighting that baked and beatified him.
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To be beatified and then canonized, two miracles, almost always medical in nature, need to be confirmed.
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Origin and Etymology of beatify
borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French beatifier, borrowed from Late Latin beātificāre, verbal derivative of Latin beātificus “making happy” — more at beatific
BEATIFY Defined for English Language Learners
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in the Roman Catholic Church : to give a dead person a title of honor for being very good and holy
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