beatify
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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
On Sunday, Pope Francis will beatify John Paul I, the last formal step before possible sainthood.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2022
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
They had two meals with Carol's sister, and were bored, and felt that intimacy which beatifies married people when they suddenly admit that they equally dislike a relative of either of them.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
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
Carlo Acutis had been beatified - the first step towards sainthood - in 2020.
From BBC ● May 23, 2024
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
This took place long after, when Pope Alexander VII. had beatified him as a martyr, in 1664.
From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Juan Antonio Llorente
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
The EU waived a travel ban on Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe so he could attend Some have questioned the Church's speed in beatifying the late Pope, just six years after his death.
From BBC ● May 1, 2011
It would have seemed, to an uninformed on-looker, that they actually desired to escape from the paternal institution which had thrown around their lives all these blissful and beatifying circumstances.
From Bricks Without Straw by Albion Winegar Tourgée
