beatifications
Blessed status declarations
Beatifications are formal declarations by the Catholic Church that deceased persons have attained a state of blessedness—the step before full sainthood.
The process requires evidence of virtuous life and usually a verified miracle.
More loosely, beatification is any act of glorifying or blessing someone: The film was a beatification of its subject, ignoring all flaws.
Receiving divine favor
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
- sanctificationMaking someone or something sacred
- martyrdomSuffering for conviction
- apostlesZealous promoters of causes
patronage · clergy · doctrine · saintliness · holiness · virtue · heroic · confessor
Official declaration of sainthood
- papalof the pontiff
- VaticanPapal city-state
- PopeCatholic Church's supreme leader
- pontiffSupreme Catholic leader
ceremony · decree · congregation · miracles · verification · postulation · investigation · martyrdom
Religious journey to shrine
- shrinesSacred devotional sites
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- adorationProfound loving regard
prayers · reverence · sanctuary · altar · incense · icons · procession · faithful
Focused attention practice
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
contemplation · mysticism · divine union · ecstasy · rapture · vision · grace · purity
blessed
Receiving divine favor
- sanctityQuality of being inviolable
- sanctificationMaking someone or something sacred
- martyrdomSuffering for conviction
apostles · patronage · clergy · doctrine · saintliness · holiness · virtue · heroic · confessor · mystic
canonization
Official declaration of sainthood
pontiff · ceremony · decree · congregation · miracles · verification · postulation · investigation · martyrdom · relics
pilgrimage
Religious journey to shrine
adoration · prayers · reverence · sanctuary · altar · incense · icons · procession · faithful · relics
meditation
Focused attention practice
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- asceticismSevere self-denial practice
devotion · contemplation · mysticism · divine union · ecstasy · rapture · vision · grace · purity · consecration
beatificationscondemnations
Formal expressions of strong disapproval
excommunications · damnations · denunciations · defamations · defrockings
beatificationsdamnations
Consignments to hell
condemnations · reprobations · censures · maledictions · curses
beatificationsdesecrations
Violations of sacred spaces
profanations · defilements · degradations · damnatio memoriae · erasures