Mother Teresa to become Saint after miracles

To some, the woman who was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 in what is now Macedonia and who died on September 4, 1997, in the Indian city of Calcutta, has always been known as the “saint of the gutters”.

Pope Francis is urging people to resist what “the temptation to indifference” to suffering in a speech on the eve of a ceremony to formally proclaim Mother Teresa a saint. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries.

The author of nine books, most recently Champions of the Rosary, which profiles 26 people including Mother Teresa, Calloway said, “To me, what she points to is that holiness, in this insane world, is still possible”.

Hitchens says Mother Teresa’s sainthood was rushed by four years by the late John Paul II, who waived the usual five-year wait between death and the opening of a person’s cause, which is the first step to sainthood. And the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said what many Indians think: Mother Teresa is “our’ saint”.

A Nobel Peace Prize victor in 1979, Mother Teresa’s elevation to Catholicism’s celestial pantheon comes on the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death in the Kolkata slums with which she is synonymous. “I started shivering. I felt exhaustion”, she said. The mission being, in Mother Teresa’s words, to look after “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone”.

She refused the traditional Nobel honor banquet, instead requesting that the $192,000 budget be given to help the poor of India. Pope John Paul granted her request to open a shelter for vagrants inside the walls of the Vatican.

“She was a loving mother who cared for her children”. “I personally think that she did more harm than good”, he wrote.

“When she was paying her obeisance to the grotto of Mother Merry, which was just beside the main road connecting the Rourkela branch, I touched her feet”. But, she had a mother ” s heart. The Vatican committee said in October 2002 that it could find no “scientific explanation” for the woman’s recovery.

The Church spent many years investigating reported miracles attributed to the late Mother Teresa. “She took medicines for nine months to one year”.

“I first met Mother Teresa when I was pursuing my graduation in Kolkata in 1994”.

She is credited with healing an Indian woman from stomach cancer in 1998 and a Brazilian man from a brain infection in 2008. Mother Teresa provided dignity and respect to those who had been defeated by life.

When a massive crowd converges on St. Peter’s Square this Sunday to watch Pope Francis make Mother Teresa a Catholic saint, Janet and Steve Ray will have a perch with a bird’s-eye view: the roof of the Vatican.