Beatification Definition

bēatəfikāzhən
noun
A beatifying or being beatified.
Webster's New World
Investigation, now formal, of whether a deceased person should be publicly declared to be in heaven and so entitled to some public veneration: an affirmative decision may lead to canonization.
Webster's New World
A public declaration, now made only by the pope, ratifying an affirmative decision arrived at through this investigation.
Webster's New World

The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; especially, in the Roman Catholic Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, — usually a stage in the process of canonization.

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beatification
Plural:
beatifications

Origin of Beatification

  • From Middle French béatification, from Medieval Latin beatificatio

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