transfiguration

A marked change in form or appearance; a metamorphosis.

A change that glorifies or exalts.

The sudden emanation of radiance from the person of Jesus that occurred on a mountain.

The Christian feast commemorating this event, observed on August 6 in the Roman Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox churches and on the Sunday before Lent in most Protestant churches.

Change of form or appearance; particularly, the change in the personal appearance of Christ, in the presence of three of his disciples (Peter, James, and John), described in Mat. xvii. 1–9; hence, some similar transformation.