beatify
verb
[ bɪˈatɪfʌɪ ]
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) announce the beatification of.
• "he beatified Juan Diego, an Indian believed to have had a vision of the Virgin Mary in 1531"
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense ‘make blessed or supremely happy’): from Old French beatifier or ecclesiastical Latin beatificare, from Latin beatus ‘blessed’.
