How to Use beatify in a Sentence

beatify

verb

• She was beatified by the Pope one hundred years after her death.
• Microsoft needs to do nothing — saints don’t need to be beatified a second time.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
• Martyrs — people killed for their faith — can be beatified without a miracle.
  — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
• If convinced, the congregation sends the case to the pope, who signs a decree saying the candidate can be beatified.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• If convinced, the dicastery sends the case to the pope, who signs a decree saying the candidate can be beatified.
  — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Francis declared Romero a martyr in 2015, and Romero was beatified that same year.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
• To be beatified and then canonized, two miracles, almost always medical in nature, need to be confirmed.
  — Jackie Snow, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2016
• The document repeats church teaching that relics from candidates for sainthood can only be venerated publicly once they have been beatified, the first step to possible sainthood, and not before.
  — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
• In a remarkably quick process, Acutis was beatified in 2020, and last year Francis approved the second miracle needed for him to be made a saint.
  — Jessie Wardarski, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
• In May, church officials announced that Father Solanus would be beatified, saying that a woman's skin disease was healed through his intercession.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2017
• Like many mothers of famous men, Mary Ball Washington has been the object of both beatifying praise and disdainful condemnation.
  — Kathleen Duval, WSJ, 7 June 2019
• All 19 were beatified in 2018 as martyrs for the faith in what was then the first such beatification ceremony in the Muslim world.
  — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2026
• All 19 were beatified in 2018 as martyrs for the faith in what was then the first such beatification ceremony in the Muslim world.
  — ABC News, 12 Apr. 2026
• Last year, the seven monks and 12 other religious sisters and Catholics killed during Algeria’s civil war were beatified in Algiers.
  — Amira El Masaiti, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
• The status allows Angelelli to be beatified — the first step toward sainthood — without having a miracle attributed to his intercession.
  — Fox News, 9 June 2018
• He will officially be beatified during a Beatification Mass, which will likely happen this fall in Detroit.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2017
• The pope is scheduled to travel Friday to the city of Villavicencio, 77 miles southeast of the capital, to beatify two Catholic clergymen killed during the conflict.
  — Nicholas Casey and Susan Abad, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• For Flanagan to be beatified, the postulator — the person responsible for advancing the cause — has to find someone who was miraculously healed by praying for Flanagan's intercession.
  — CBS News, 23 Mar. 2026
• For Flanagan to be beatified, the postulator — the person responsible for advancing the cause — has to find someone who was miraculously healed by praying for Flanagan’s intercession.
  — ABC News, 23 Mar. 2026
• Neumann’s successor, Father Francis Xavier Seelos, was beatified in 2000, a step toward sainthood.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• Earlier at a Mass in Villavicencio, Francis will beatify two priests intimately identified with Colombia’s conflict.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017
• These include those who disgustingly celebrated the murder of Brian Thompson and all but beatified his alleged assassin, and those who made light of and mocked the attack on Pelosi’s family and the Minnesota lawmakers.
  — Agustina Vergara Cid, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025