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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

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

Bruni leaps to beatify Christakis in his ascent to his pantheon of academic excellence, because a martyr must become a saint.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2019

It is an innate element of the human constitution, designed to beautify and beatify man.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

We’d be fools to believe that switching to another early-morning exercise class, or picking a new favorite set of superheroes, or forgoing Bean Boots this fall, automatically beatifies us.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2019

They rescue creatures from the trash — a salvation from a sad death that eternally beatifies bird and beast.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2018

Murnane’s is a vision that blesses and beatifies every detail.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018

Pope Francis will pay tribute to some of South Korea's first Catholics when he beatifies 124 Korean Catholics who died in the 18th and 19th Centuries.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2014

So far as He is the good which of its very nature beatifies all with supernatural beatitude, He is love with the love of charity.

From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Vietnam has had 117 people beatified and later canonised as saints, but the Church said this was the first time a beatification ceremony had been held in the country rather than at the Vatican.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

For them, there is more than just basketball at play and their issue isn’t with Clark, but rather the hype machine that has beatified her.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

It is the first time that an entire family has been beatified.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

It is the first time that an entire family is being beatified.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2023

The beatified were not only physicians during their life, but medicinal after death.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

In beatifying Pope Paul VI, Francis was honoring the architect of Vatican II, which modernized the church in the 1960s and 1970s.

From US News ● Oct. 20, 2014

“He is beatifying the idea that Paul VI acted in a holy way when he opened discussion, instead of saying ‘stop, this can’t be debated,'” he added.

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2014

Knappenberger approaches his subject as a true believer, beatifying and martyring Swartz instead of sitting with the contradictions of his life.

From The Verge ● Jun. 27, 2014

Some have questioned the Church's speed in beatifying the late pope, just six years after his death, our correspondent says.

From BBC ● May 1, 2011

What pipe was ever thus beatifying in effect?

From Pagan Papers by Grahame, Kenneth