0 to announce formally in the Roman Catholic Church that someone who is dead has lived a holy life, usually as the first stage in making that person a saint --
He beatifies his first wife while celebrating his own extra-marital affairs.
He was beatified in 1769.
All three were beatified in 1889.
He was beatified in 1929.
He himself was beatified in 1677.
He was beatified in 1202.
He can then be beatified.
He was beatified in 1981.
Progress did not take place, however, until the 20th century, when he was beatified in 1951, and subsequently canonized in 1986.
