beatify

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb Roman Catholic Church To proclaim (a deceased person) to be one of the blessed and thus worthy of public religious veneration in a particular region or religious congregation.
• transitive verb To exalt; glorify.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To make supremely happy; bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment: as,“beatified spirits,”
• To pronounce or regard as happy, or as conferring happiness.
• Specifically In the Roman Catholic Church, to decree beatification.
• Hence To ascribe extraordinary virtue or excellence to; regard as saintly or exalted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
• transitive verb To make happy; to bless with the completion of celestial enjoyment.
• transitive verb (R. C. Ch.) 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To make blissful.
• verb transitive To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.
• verb transitive, Roman Catholicism To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a saint.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood
• verb make blessedly happy
• verb fill with sublime emotion