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.
No prayer to angel or beatified spirit occurs from its first to its last page.
Jacinta is the youngest non-martyred child ever to be beatified.
Later the pontiff beatified him between 1220 and 1222, although this is not evidenced by any document of the time.
In addition, twenty-four martyrs were beatified in 1968.
Up to the present over 1000 have been beatified and 11 canonized.
Gucio was beatified in 2004, on track to becoming a saint himself.
He will be the only biblical scholar of the 20th century who has been beatified.
She was beatified in 1923, and canonized in 1925.
