The monarch doubted not of the sincerity of this crowd of conversions; the converters took good care to persuade him of it and to beatify him beforehand.
"The Memoirs of Louis XIV., Volume 10 And His Court and of The Regency"
Duc de Saint-Simon
Canst thou beatify the ascetic's savagery To heavenly prudence?
"The Saint's Tragedy"
Charles Kingsley
That he himself was what the world calls romantic, he had no idea,-but he had lived now for months on the conviction that the only chance of personal happiness to himself was to come from the smiles and kindness and love of a certain human being whom he had chosen to beatify.
"Ralph the Heir"
Anthony Trollope