How to Use beatify in a Sentence

beatify

verb

• She was beatified by the Pope one hundred years after her death.
• Above him, klieg lighting that baked and beatified him.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2017
• Francis declared Romero a martyr in 2015, and Romero was beatified that same year.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 15 Oct. 2018
• If convinced, the congregation sends the case to the pope, who signs a decree saying the candidate can be beatified.
  — Washington Post, 11 May 2017
• The pope is to beatify two Colombian priests killed during guerrilla warfare, declaring them martyrs who were killed out of hatred for the Catholic faith.
  — Alba Tobella, The Seattle Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• The Vatican must still confirm a miracle attributed to his intercession for him to be beatified, and a second one for him to be made a saint.
  — Washington Post, 23 May 2018
• Now the Vatican must confirm a miracle attributed to Hlond's intercession for him to be beatified, and a second one for him to be made a saint.
  — Fox News, 4 July 2018
• Francis will beatify two Colombian priests killed during decades of guerrilla warfare, declaring them martyrs who were killed out of hatred for the Catholic faith.
  — Nicole Winfield and Joshua Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2017
• 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.
  — Nicholas Casey and Susan Abad, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2017
• Francis will pray at the sanctuary for Thailand’s first martyred priest, Nicolas Bunkerd Kitbamrung, who was beatified in 2000.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2019
• Last year, the seven monks and 12 other religious sisters and Catholics killed during Algeria’s civil war were beatified in Algiers.
  — Amira El Masaiti, The Seattle Times, 31 Mar. 2019
• In May, church officials announced that Father Solanus would be beatified, saying that a woman's skin disease was healed through his intercession.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 5 Oct. 2017
• Like many mothers of famous men, Mary Ball Washington has been the object of both beatifying praise and disdainful condemnation.
  — Kathleen Duval, WSJ, 7 June 2019
• To be beatified and then canonized, two miracles, almost always medical in nature, need to be confirmed.
  — Jackie Snow, National Geographic, 2 Sep. 2016
• The document repeats church teaching that relics from candidates for sainthood can only be venerated publicly once they have been beatified, the first step to possible sainthood, and not before.
  — Nicole Winfield, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
• Neumann’s successor, Father Francis Xavier Seelos, was beatified in 2000, a step toward sainthood.
  — Jonathan M. Pitts, baltimoresun.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• The status allows Angelelli to be beatified — the first step toward sainthood — without having a miracle attributed to his intercession.
  — Fox News, 9 June 2018
• He will officially be beatified during a Beatification Mass, which will likely happen this fall in Detroit.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 May 2017
• Earlier at a Mass in Villavicencio, Francis will beatify two priests intimately identified with Colombia’s conflict.
  — Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2017

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