0 past simple and past participle of beatify --
1 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.
In recognition of this, he was formally beatified in 1793.
About 12 have since been added, apart from a larger number who have been beatified.
In late 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood.
Up to the present over 1000 have been beatified and 11 canonized.
In addition, twenty-four martyrs were beatified in 1968.
Later the pontiff beatified him between 1220 and 1222, although this is not evidenced by any document of the time.
Jacinta is the youngest non-martyred child ever to be beatified.
Of all these martyrs, seventy-nine were beatified in 1925.
