Sainthood for Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who devoted herself to helping the poor, will be canonized as a saint, after Pope Francis issued a decree attributing a second miracle to the founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Then, the Church requires two miracles to be attributed to that person.

Relatives prayed to Mother Teresa and he recovered, leaving his doctors at a loss to explain how. She will likely be officially canonized on September 4, which is the day before the 19th anniversary of her death, though it’s unclear whether the ceremony will happen in Kolkata or Vatican City.

The devout Christian, who passed away in 1997, won the Nobel Peace Prize for her charitable spirit and aspiring actions and was given worldwide recognition for her missionary work and devotion to working with the poor in India and especially the children in Kolkata.

Mother Teresa spent much of her life as the head of an organization that runs homes and hospices for people with HIV/ADS, leprosy and tuberculosis.

The pontiff met the late nun in Rome in 1994 when he was a bishop, and joked previous year that while he admired her strength, he “would have been scared if she had been my mother superior”.

She was beatified by Pope John Paul II six years after her death.

Sister Christie, a spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity Mother Teresa founded in 1950, said they are very happy with the news.

The Brazilian man who had not always been married when he was diagnosed with eight brain tumours in 2008, according to Vatican expert Andrea Tornielli. Here’s how she once described herself: “By blood, I am Albanian”.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee congratulated Missionaries of Charity on the Vatican decision to elevate Mother Teresa to sainthood.

“If prayers made to someone even after his or her death can cause healing then it is recognised as a miracle”.

She was criticised for the quality of care in her clinics and for taking donations from Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier and disgraced American financier Charles Keating.

The path for the canonization of the beloved nun was cleared after Pope Francis recognized a second medical miracle attributed to her.

“She extended herself to extend God’s mercy to the lost and the forlorn, the sick and the dying, the abandoned”, said Damian.

Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, which is now the capital of Macedonia, on August 26, 1910.

Archbishop Thomas D’Souza of Kolkata said, “It’s a real Christmas gift the Holy Father has given, especially for the Church in Kolkata”.