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• v  fill with sublime emotion
• v  make blessedly happy
• v  declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood

• And since the Vatican had already carefully vetted the circumstances of Fatima to beatify Lucia's two companions, how much more work need be done to establish the heroic virtue of .
• That's beginning to look pretty smart unless America is ready to beatify Bolt.
• If you beatify him now, there will be a whitewashing of him, which will involve the church in more dishonesty.

• exhilarate
• tickle pink
• inebriate
• thrill
• exalt

News & Articles

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• El Salvador presses Pope Francis to beatify Archbishop Romero
  VATICAN CITY -- El Salvador's president gave Pope Francis a relic of assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero on Thursday amid mounting indications that the Vatican might soon move to beatify him.
  July 31, 2013 - Boulder Daily Camera

Quotes

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• John Henry Newman in Total Catholic
  Fr Paul Chavasse, Provost of the Birmingham Oratory and Postulator of the Newman Cause said: "We now hope and pray for a positive outcome for the remaining steps of the process to beatify our cardinal."
• Nasrallah Sfeir in Daily Star - Lebanon
  The Maronite Church and the Order of Lebanese Monks asked the Holy Pope Benedict XVI to beatify Lebanese Maronite Monk Estephan Nehmeh,Sfeir said.
• Pope John Paul II in Inquirer.net
  At his beatification in Poland in June 1983, John Paul II said, "It's a miraculous Providence that wished myself to beatify this great servant of God, right here in Cracow."