Beatification in a general sense refers to the action of beatifying. Beatification is an ecclesiastical procedure through which the Papal figure manifests or exposes that a character already deceased enjoys the glory of heaven and is worthy of all kinds of cults thanks to the virtues that he possessed. This is a statement made by the Pope who qualifies him as the head of the church, exposing that a given servant of God maintained a life of holiness, that is, that he has fulfilled the Christian virtues in such a way that he can express himself as heroic, and that consequently he obtained a martyr's death and that he now enjoys the heavenly divinities.
The body in charge of studying and analyzing each of the miracles, heroic virtues and martyrdoms is the Vatican, and this is the one that proposes the different figures of holiness so that the Supreme Pontiff starts to execute the beatifications, it is the so-called Congregation for the Causes of the Saints. The sentence of the beatification is not something definitive that is carried out before the canonization; Because beatification is the permission to pay a certain tribute or public worship to an entity with certain limitations, for its part, canonization allows the veneration of a particular character in a universal way, which is called a saint.
The beatification process can only be offered to those people who have died with a reputation for holiness, which is constant, that there is evidence and that this is disclosed in different places and territories. Beatification can be granted in two ways, which can be for enjoying certain heroic Christian virtues, or for martyrdom, that is, he suffered for his faith.
