Blessed
Blessed
The official ecclesiastical title, preliminary to sainthood, conferred by a solemn judgment of the Church after sufficient investigation has proved that the virtues of a deceased person have been heroic, and that God has testified to this by miracles worked through the intercession of the respective person. The solemnities of beatification are briefly as follows. On the day on which beatification takes place Mass is said in Saint Peter’s in the presence of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. After the Gospel, the secretary of the Congregation reads the papal decree of beatification , at the conclusion of which a painting of the newly beatified is exposed over the altar and the Mass is finished. About the hour of Vespers the Holy Father comes down to the basilica to venerate the new blessed. Regarding the cultus of the blessed, attention must be paid to the special indult issued by the sovereign pontiff. Usually the Mass and Office may be said on a fixed day within certain limits of place or by certain classes of persons.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Blessed
is a title given by the Church alone, and to persons who die in holiness. No individual bishop can give this title, which is granted in the Church of Rome only after a kind of proof, real or supposed, of the virtues and miracles of the person to whom it is given,
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Blessed
blesed (, barukh): Where God is referred to, this word has the sense of praise, as in 1Sa 25:32, Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel. But where man is in mind it is used in the sense of happy or favored, and most frequently so in the Psalms and the Gospels, as for example, Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked (Psa 1:1); Blessed art thou among women (Luk 1:42); Blessed are the poor in spirit (Mat 5:3). See BEATITUDES.