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 Sunday, Pope Francis will beatify John Paul I, the last formal step before possible sainthood.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 31, 2022

During the decades-long wait for the Vatican to beatify the doctor, many Venezuelans were lighting candles in his name and placing images of him on their personal altars.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2021

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

If we regard clairvoyance as a normal faculty we are more likely to treat it normally than if we give it a paramount and exceptional value and seek to beatify those in whom it appears.

From Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance by Sepharial