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Beatification
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beatification noun
- The act of beatifying or of rendering or pronouncing happy; tbe state of being blessed; blessedness.
- In tbe Roman Catholic Church, tbe act by which a deceased person is declared to be beatified, or one of tbe blessed, and therefore a proper subject of a certain degree or kind of public religious honor.
- The act of beatifying, or tbe state of being beatified; esp., in tbe Roman Catholic Church, tbe act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of “the blessed,” or has attained tbe second degree of sanctity, usually a stage in tbe process of canonization.