Term: beatification: (Roman Catholic Church) an act of the Pope who declares that a deceased person lived a holy life and is worthy of public veneration; a first step toward canonization
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: spat: a young oyster or other bivalve
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: villa: detached or semidetached suburban house
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: golden horde: a Mongolian army that swept over eastern Europe in the 13th century
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: factorial: the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: inner ear: a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: ruin: an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: springtide: a swelling rush of anything
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: jellyfish: any of numerous usually marine and free-swimming coelenterates that constitute the sexually reproductive forms of hydrozoans and scyphozoans
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: bosom: a person's breast or chest
Broader: sanctification: a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | Unrelated: arbiter: someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue