Made supremely happy or blessed, especially by the Catholic Church declaring someone blessed after death.
From Latin 'beatus' (blessed) + '-ify' (to make). The Church formalized this as a stage before canonization, where a deceased person is officially recognized as blessed and worthy of veneration.
Beatification is a specific legal process in the Catholic Church—you can't just be happy, you have to be officially declared blessed by the Pope! It usually requires evidence of a miracle performed through the person's intercession.
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