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Mother Teresa has been officially named a saint thanks to an unbelievable life of working with the poor in India – and this comes just 19 years after her death! Two apparent cures of sick people have been attributed to her. And for many of those gathered in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday, the canonization was nothing short of a formality, because they already considered her a saint.

Mother Teresa dedicated her life to helping the poor.

There has however been conflicting opinions surrounding whether these supposed miracles are in fact miracles at all, and whether they are enough to justify Mother Teresa becoming a saint.

But Joanna Jaworowski predicted “it will definitely take time and repetition” for the world to abandon the maternal title that has always been assigned to Teresa.

Mother Teresa in 1979 received a Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work.

She was born in 1910 to Albanian parents.

Last year, Pope Francis recognized as a miracle the healing of a Brazilian man with several brain tumours in 2008.

On Sunday Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa of Kolkata a saint, on his Jubilee Year of Mercy.

Her example, the cardinal said, is a call to all Christians “to convert from being lukewarm and mediocre to allow ourselves to be set alight by the fire of Christ’s love”.

“I have a lot of admiration for Mother Teresa but I think everyone should be welcome here”, Tarcone said.

“(She) belonged to our India and stayed with the Indians and will forever stay in our hearts”, Sharma said. They say that often led her to provide only minimal and unhygienic services to the needy in her care. Robert Mickens is a veteran Vatican analyst. Mother Teresa used to hand out Miraculous Medals in the same way during her lifetime.

Mother Teresa’s devotees began pressing the Vatican soon after her death to speed up the nun’s sainthood cause, saying her holiness was clear to many around the world. He repeated that line again, emphasizing a point that he has made numerous times as pope: “The crimes of poverty they themselves created”. For NPR News, I’m Christopher Livesay in Rome.