Mother Teresa to be named saint by Pope Francis, report says

In 1979, she received the Nobel Peace Prize, which drew the attention of the media to the demure nun in blue and white.

The sainthood is likely to be conferred in September.

The miracle needed for her canonization concerns the inexplicable cure in 2008 of a man in Brazil with multiple brain abscesses who, within a day of being in a coma, was cured, according to a report in Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference.

Mother Teresa was well-respected for her courageous and forthright views against abortion.

Mother Teresa will be made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican announced on Friday morning! “We are very excited and happy about it”, PTI quoted Missionaries of Charity Spokesperson Sunitha Kumar as saying.

The Catholic world celebrated an announcement Friday by Pope Francis that Mother Teresa of Calcutta will become a saint.

Mother Teresa went to the blessed Theresa of Calcutta parish twenty years ago. “My best wishes to Missionaries of Charity on this joyous occasion”, Mamata said in a statement.

In order to recognize a saint, the Vatican must verify that a person has performed two miracles and has lived a virtuous life. The traditional canonisation procedure requires at least two miracles.

Mother Teresa cared for the poorest in the slums of India.

The Vatican later attributed the cure to the fervent prayers to Mother Teresa’s intercession by the man’s wife, who at the time of his scheduled surgery was at her parish church praying alongside her pastor. Months later, she left for India, landing in the city then known as Calcutta in January 1929, where she taught at St. Mary’s School for girls.

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in what is today Macedonia, the ethnic Albanian Teresa took Indian citizenship.

Gëzim Alpion, Professor of Sociology at the University of Birmingham, U.K., who has written a book, Mother Teresa: Saint or Celebrity?

Known as the “saint of the gutters”, the diminutive nun is expected to be canonised in early September.

“As Christians here in America – especially when there are so many people who are poor or homeless, out of work, hungry, especially children – she should be a model for how we should be leading our lives”. She had been credited with her first miracle in 2002 when a woman in Indian with a tumor in her abdomen was healed after applying a locket holding Mother Teresa’s picture.