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NOUN
- the action of rendering supremely blessed and extremely happy
- a state of supreme happiness
- (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization
How To Use beatification In A Sentence
- He will buried in the tomb left vacant after the remains of Pope John XXIII were exhumed from the cramped grotto under St. Peter's Basilica in 2001 and moved to the main floor following his beatification. USATODAY.com - Bells, white smoke to announce new pope
- The so-called diocesan process of his beatification was begun on 11 The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- Beatification is the last step on the road to sainthood, although not all those who are beatified are finally canonised. John Paul II to be beatified in Rome
- The Vatican said at the weekend that a decision in favour of the pope's eventual fast-track beatification would be the ‘exclusive competence’ of his successor.
- In some press accounts this act was linked with the expected beatification, not of Pius XII, but of Pius IX.
- In the 1990s, a number of bishoprics in Germany, Luxembourg and France began to support his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
- The life of Fr Mullen was featured recently on the RTE programme ‘Nationwide’, which, combined with the book, is hopefully seen as a step towards beatification.
- He was a Mexican priest who had been appointed vice postulator of the Causes for the Beatification of the two young Fatima visionaries.
- Once ensconced as a fully-fledged academic, he narrowed his field of hobbies to include amateur beatification and canasta.
- The documents attested more than 400 miracles or extraordinary graces, and thirty postulatory letters from archbishops and bishops in France besought the beatification from the Holy See. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
