(n.) The act of beatifying or the state of being beatified; especially, in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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