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What does beatify mean?

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  1. (transitive) To make blissful.
  2. (transitive) To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
  3. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
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In 1995, he visited Papua New Guinea, this time to beatify the catechist Peter To Rot.
Not surprisingly, the move to beatify Pius XII alongside John XXIII in 2000 provoked a storm of controversy that may have contributed to the decision to postpone Pius's beatification.
It will be a particular joy for me to beatify the Venerable John Henry Newman in Birmingham on Sunday 19 September.
To take it one step further from the proverbially butterfly wing-flap, in the clamour to condemn Clarke and beatify the anonymous till worker, we see the playback of one of the grandest cosmic dramas of them all.
The televised ceremonies will culminate with a public Mass in Coventry, at which the Pontiff will beatify John Henry Newman.
Now that the miracle attributed to Mother Teresa has been authenticated, the Pope will beatify the Nobel Peace Prize winner.

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