Beatification

in general, the act of rendering supremely ble ed, also the state of being rendered supremely ble ed. In a special sense an act by which the Pope declares, on evidence which he considers himself to po e , that a certain deceased person is in the enjoyment of supreme felicity in Heaven. It is the first step toward canonization, but it is not canonization itself, Beaton, David, Cardinal Archbishop of St. Andrew’s, Scotland, born in 1494. He became Abbot of Arbroath in 1525, Lord Privy Seal three years later, was sent on several mi ions to France, received a cardinal’s hat in 1538, and in the following year became Primate. On the death of James V., he, by eraft and determination, secured to himself the chief power in Church and State, being named Lord High Chancellor of detiand, and Papal Legate. He opposed an alliance with England, and especially distinguished him if as a persecutor of the Reformers. The trial and burning of George Wishart for heresy took place under his direction, and, a short time afterward Beaton was a a inated at St. Andrew’s, in May, 1546. With his death, church tyranny came to an end in Scotland.