Vatican: Would be nice if Mother Teresa made saint in 2016

But these reports are being played down by the Vatican who claim it is too early to confirm whether she will be made a Saint during the Holy Year of Mercy next year.

“Sept. 4 is a hypothesis or plan within the calendar for the jubilee year”, Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican spokesman, told Catholic News Service November 19. A similar report had appeared in the Italian media last month.

The Vatican has not officially attributed a further miracle, beyond that which was required for her beatification, to Teresa, but its medical board has said it believes Teresa is responsible for the inexplicable cure of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors.

Members of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes still must review the physicians’ report on the healing.

The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will canonize Mother Teresa in September 2016, according to Gerard O’Connell with America magazine.

With the decree, the pope would survey the world’s cardinals and set a date for a consistory of cardinals who live in or could come to Rome for the occasion. The Italian bishops conference daily Avvenire on Wednesday, citing Italian news agency AGI, called September 4 a “probable” date.

Mother Teresa was beatified – when the Catholic Church recognise that a person enters Heaven – by Pope John Paul II in 2003, after the first healing miracle was found soon after her death.

Father Santos said that the patient subsequently improved, was taken out of the intensive care unit and, within two days, was given a clean bill of health and discharged.