beatified
adjective
Meaning
- Having been recognized and declared, by the church, that a deceased has entered heaven; having attained this step in the process of canonization.
- To make blissful.
- To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
- To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.
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