beatify
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The service to beatify Jozef and Wiktoria Ulma and their seven children will be held on Sunday in the Polish town of Markowa where they died in March 1944.
From Reuters ● Sep. 5, 2023
On the final day of his four-day visit to Britain, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass to beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th century Anglican convert.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2020
Bruni leaps to beatify Christakis in his ascent to his pantheon of academic excellence, because a martyr must become a saint.
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2019
The pope is scheduled to travel Friday to the city of Villavicencio, 77 miles southeast of the capital, to beatify two Catholic clergymen killed during the conflict.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
A look may beatify or plunge in the depths of despair.
From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by Stalker, James
We’d be fools to believe that switching to another early-morning exercise class, or picking a new favorite set of superheroes, or forgoing Bean Boots this fall, automatically beatifies us.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019
They rescue creatures from the trash — a salvation from a sad death that eternally beatifies bird and beast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2018
Murnane’s is a vision that blesses and beatifies every detail.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018
Pope Francis will pay tribute to some of South Korea's first Catholics when he beatifies 124 Korean Catholics who died in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2014
So far as He is the good which of its very nature beatifies all with supernatural beatitude, He is love with the love of charity.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Vietnam has had 117 people beatified and later canonised as saints, but the Church said this was the first time a beatification ceremony had been held in the country rather than at the Vatican.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
He was previously beatified - attributed his first miracle - in 2020, the healing of a Brazilian child diagnosed with a congenital disease.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024
For them, there is more than just basketball at play and their issue isn’t with Clark, but rather the hype machine that has beatified her.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024
It is the first time that an entire family has been beatified.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023
Though beatified they wore a chastened, propitiatory air, for Miss Bailey had just been lecturing them.
From Little Aliens by Kelly, Myra
Benedict XVI cleared the path to Archbishop Romero’s sainthood shortly before resigning in 2013, and Francis fast-tracked his conversion to sainthood, beatifying him in 2015 as a martyr.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2018
In beatifying Pope Paul VI, Francis was honoring the architect of Vatican II, which modernized the church in the 1960s and 1970s.
From US News ● Oct. 20, 2014
Knappenberger approaches his subject as a true believer, beatifying and martyring Swartz instead of sitting with the contradictions of his life.
From The Verge ● Jun. 27, 2014
By beatifying Father Puglisi, the Church is making a strong stand against mafia crime - which has been protected by a code of silence - the BBC's David Willey in Rome says.
From BBC ● May 26, 2013
The Holy See is really as dilatory in beatifying parties, or making them happy, as the High Court of Chancery.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
