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What does beatify mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word beatify? Here's what it means.

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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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This week Pope Francis will spend five days there, for Asian Youth Day and to beatify 124 early martyrs.
They will gather at the Vatican later this month to beatify 498 victims, mostly priests, monks and nuns, of leftist Republicans during and before the civil war.
On May 1, 2011, Divine Mercy Sunday, in Rome, Benedict XVI will beatify John Paul II, who canonized St. Josemaría.
In 1985, after his cardinal petitioned the Vatican to beatify 117 Vietnamese martyrs, he was told he could never be released.
Now that the miracle attributed to Mother Teresa has been authenticated, the Pope will beatify the Nobel Peace Prize winner.
In 1995, he visited Papua New Guinea, this time to beatify the catechist Peter To Rot.

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