Most important, it puts a human face on a beatified legend.

Aisha touched the side of the tablet, and a beatified smile softened the hard lines of her face.

Of angels, that remained faithful, and of beatified souls, the latter in that form which they will have at the last day.

Once on the summit, sit in the white-washed open-air pews and enjoy a beatified view of North America's primordial beginnings.

The simple view of men like Washington, Lincoln, and Roosevelt as beatified heroes of the American epic doesn't always stand up to scrutiny.

It is very singular that you failed to care for him, and preferred a poor old fellow like me," said David, beaming at her like a beatified man.

It is the exhibition of a lifetime, and not just because Fra Angelico is the first beatified artist to have a retrospective at the Met.

Meanwhile, at Dance Theater Workshop, Ann Carlson's "Animals" offers a beatified vision of relationships between man and beast.

Inside his office, Congressman Stanbridge from the Forty-ninth District in San Diego was in a beatified state.

Blessed Devasahayam Pillai (1712-1752), born Neelakanta Pillai in southern India, is a beatified layman of the Catholic church.

To inspire the troops, religious banners were unfurled bearing the images of the Virgin Mary, Christ as Crusader, the late King John I and the late beatified constable Nuno Álvares Pereira.

She died on 14 June 1391 and was later beatified.

The pope is expected to beatify two of the children.

The eleven would be beatified by the Church in 2000.

No other American President has ever been so quickly beatified.

He is one of the Catholic martyrs, beatified in 1929.

It was the greatest numbers of persons ever beatified in the Church's 2000-year history.

He became the first Melanesian to be beatified in 1995.

Two more church boards must approve it before he can be beatified.

In late 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood.

In 1879, she was declared venerable and beatified on May 24, 1908.

John has been beatified, the last formal step toward sainthood.

He then beatified the temple, made it a church.

That same pope beatified him on 20 May 1990.

Mother Marianne is to be beatified, the last major step before sainthood.

For instance, Charlemagne was beatified by a court bishop soon after his death.

Seventeen Catholic martyrs from this period were beatified in 1992.

But "New York has not been permanently beatified," she added.

A person who is beatified is given the title "Blessed".

Two other American-born women have been beatified, the last step before sainthood.

His devotees hope that he will also be beatified that year.

In recognition of this, he was formally beatified in 1793.

He was noted for his piety and was beatified in 1995.

"If they beatify him, don't ask us to applaud," he said.

Mozart began the long line of Romantic artists who had the courage to beatify personal grief.

He was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1899.