beatify

verb

Etymology: From French béatifier, from Medieval Latin beātifico (“I bless”).

1. To make blissful.
2. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring happiness.

   “[T]hat assertion of the wise man: 'Labor not for riches; wilt thou set thy heart on that which is not?' it, well applied, will pluck down the high places reared to this great idol of clay in men's hearts: will confute the common conceits and phrases which so beatify wealth; […]”

3. To carry out the third of four steps in canonization, making someone a blessed.