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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