📚 Beatification, noun.
🔉 /bɪˌatɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (mass noun): (in the Roman Catholic Church) declaration by the Pope that a dead person is in a state of bliss, constituting a first step towards canonization and permitting public veneration.
❗️ Examples:
1. A ceremony of beatification in St Peter's Square.
2. Both the Blet and Cornwall volumes are also part of the current struggle over the possible beatification and canonization of Pius XII.
3. In the 1990s, a number of bishoprics in Germany, Luxembourg and France began to support his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
4. We wrote a pretty irreverent piece on the Pope's beatification of two dead shepherd children.
5. The life of Fr Mullen was featured recently on the RTE programme ‘Nationwide’, which, combined with the book, is hopefully seen as a step towards beatification.
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🔉 /bɪˌatɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ 🇬🇧
❓ Definition (mass noun): (in the Roman Catholic Church) declaration by the Pope that a dead person is in a state of bliss, constituting a first step towards canonization and permitting public veneration.
❗️ Examples:
1. A ceremony of beatification in St Peter's Square.
2. Both the Blet and Cornwall volumes are also part of the current struggle over the possible beatification and canonization of Pius XII.
3. In the 1990s, a number of bishoprics in Germany, Luxembourg and France began to support his beatification by the Roman Catholic Church.
4. We wrote a pretty irreverent piece on the Pope's beatification of two dead shepherd children.
5. The life of Fr Mullen was featured recently on the RTE programme ‘Nationwide’, which, combined with the book, is hopefully seen as a step towards beatification.
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🌀 @cambridge_dic