To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.

To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized.

make blessedly happy

declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"

To declare a person to be “blessed” and worthy of public veneration. It is the last step before sainthood and requires papal approval of one miracle.