Pope Francis approves Mother Teresa’s second miracle

The Vatican said Francis approved a decree attributing a miracle to Mother Teresa’s intercession during an audience with the head of the Vatican’s saint-making office on Thursday, his 79th birthday.

Kolkata: Mother Teresa will be elevated to sainthood after the Church has recognised a second miracle of the nun, the Missionaries of Charity said today.

The miracle in question concerned the inexplicable cure of a Brazilian man suffering from a viral brain infection that resulted in multiple abscesses.

“Bergoglio had Mother Teresa behind him, nearby, and he heard her intervene often with great strength, without letting herself in any way be intimidated by this assembly of bishops”, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, later recounted.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

Could you make “saint”? A year later, some of her former students joined her, and together they took in men, women and children who were dying in the gutters along the streets.

Mother Teresa died in 1997 and was beatified – the first step towards sainthood – in 2003.

The first miracle attributed to Mother Teresa after her death involved a woman in Kolkata who suffered from a stomach tumor.

Relatives prayed to Mother Teresa and he recovered, leaving his doctors mystified, they said.

Although no plans are official, Cardinal Amato has previously suggested September 4, 2016 – which is being observed as a jubilee day for workers and volunteers of mercy – as a possible canonization date, since it is close to September 5, the nun’s feast day and the anniversary of her death. I was quite near her, kneeling with my microphone.

She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. After contracting tuberculosis, she was sent to rest in Darjeeling, and it was on the way that she felt what she called “an order” from God to leave the convent and live among the poor. “We were waiting for this moment, since many years really, and now that it has come we are very happy, overjoyed”, Thomas D’Souza, archbishop of Kolkata, told Vatican Radio. The commission found Besra, diagnosed with tuberculosis and cancerous tumour, getting well after prayers by Missionaries of Charity.