Beatification

beatification noun

1. The act of beatifying or of rendering or pronouncing happy; the state of being blessed; blessedness.
2. In the Roman Catholic Church, the act by which a deceased person is declared to be beatified, or one of the blessed, and therefore a proper subject of a certain degree or kind of public religious honor.
3. The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the Roman Catholic 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.