Mother Teresa proclaimed saint before huge crowds in Vatican

Mother Teresa’s “humble works of love, done for people who were abandoned and forsaken in a remote city in India, became a sign for the whole world of God’s tender and merciful love”, Gomez wrote.

“She had a great impact, this place was just shining like a star”, said Kaliea “She had a glow on her face, and she was a totally wrinkled woman, but still so lovely”.

“She made her voice heard before the powers of the world, so that they might recognise their guilt for the crimes of poverty they themselves created”.

Several flags fluttered over the ceremony: Albania, representing Mother Teresa’s ethnic origin; Macedonia, representing her birthplace; India, the place of most of her good works; and numerous other countries where her works touched many lives.

“Let us carry her smile in our hearts and give it to those whom we meet along our journey, especially those who suffer”, he added. She founded the religious congregation “Missionaries of Charity”, which still has thousands of sisters working around the world.

Rita, who was born in Kosovo to Albanian parents, was joined by famous Albanian singers such as Ermonela Jaho, Inva Mula and Saimir Pirgu at the festivities.

“I was fortunate to meet Mother”. “And I’m grateful for the way it’s connecting with real people”. “She would say, ‘If I can do something, then I must do it.'” But the questions that remain, even upon her canonisation, remind us that even saints are human first.

Kaliea says despite so many years passing, he still lives by the lessons he learned from Mother Teresa. “You look at a picture of her”.

St. Peter’s Square was crowded with faithful attending a Canonisation Mass by Pope Francis for Mother Teresa.

Solangel Rojas had come from Cali in Colombia.

Everyone we spoke to had a story of how she impacted their life.

Every day at 6 AM a mass is organised at the Mother House but this time it was to seek blessings from St Teresa. For the homeless, Francis offered a luncheon afterward in the Vatican auditorium, catered by a Neapolitan pizza maker who brought his own ovens for the event.

A huge portrait of Mother Teresa, whom the church credits with having performed two miraculous cures of the sick, hung from St. Peter’s Basilica during the colorful ceremony.

While her sainthood wasn’t the sole focus of this mass, Mother Teresa was definitely a hot topic of discussion.

“She is a hero and she represents peace”, said Jessica Romero, who had come from France.

However, Mother Teresa’s legacy has been criticized.

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Woodinville, Washington, organised a pilgrimage for 87 people – about 10 percent of the parish membership. He beatified her in 2003, the Catholic church’s highest honor short of sainthood. Others have questioned the two Vatican-approved miracles needed to fulfill the church’s requirements for canonization, including the alleged healing of an Indian woman’s tumor.

In Brooklyn, congregants gathered at Our Lady of Victory in Bed-Stuy, a church Mother Teresa visited herself in 1995.

In the second, approved a year ago, Brazilian Marcilio Haddad Andrino says his wife’s prayers to Teresa led to brain tumours disappearing. “She was not a conformist”, said sister Tywang. “The majority of Christians only spend their time talking about it”.