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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

The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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 Saint Thomas Aquinas

Moreover, all four ex-jocks are presented as so courageous, thoughtful, dedicated and manly that they’re effectively beatified, and they’re also barely distinguishable from one another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

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

Kositi has since been beatified - at a ceremony in Rome last month - meaning that once one miracle has been attributed to him, he will become a saint.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2025

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

Dormant though the several creatures there congregated seem, each individual is leading the beatified existence of an epicurean god.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various

Benedict XVI cleared the path to Archbishop Romero’s sainthood shortly before resigning in 2013, and Francis fast-tracked his conversion to sainthood, beatifying him in 2015 as a martyr.

From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2018

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

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

By beatifying Father Puglisi, the Church is making a strong stand against mafia crime - which has been protected by a code of silence - the BBC's David Willey in Rome says.

From BBC ● May 26, 2013

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