beatification
/biːˌætɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/noun
mass noun
- (in the Roman Catholic Church) declaration by the Pope that a dead person is in a state of bliss, constituting a first step towards canonization and permitting public veneration（罗马天主教）宣福（教皇昭告死者已得真福的宣言, 此为死者获得封圣地位的第一步, 并由此开始接受公众朝拜）。
词源
early 16th cent. （in the sense 'action of making blessed'）： from Old French， from ecclesiastical Latin beatificatio（n-）， from beatificare 'make blessed'， from Latin beatus 'blessed'.