But Father Ciro Benedettini, the deputy director of the Vatican press office, told the Catholic News Agency that the Congregation for the Causes of Saints has not completed its work on the cause for Mother Teresa’s canonization. AGI, an Italian news agency, reported Wednesday that Pope Francis will canonize the nun on September 4 or 5 of next year. Her canonization cause is now underway at the Vatican, with the study of possible miracles betting attributed to her intercession. Lombardi said canonization “would be lovely” and called the possibility she would be made a saint next year a “reasonable hypothesis, desire” by admirers.
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The news follows the discovery of a healing attributed to her in Brazil in which a man is thought to have recovered from brain tumours following prayers for her help.
And according to reports, she could be canonised in September on the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death in 1997.
The Vatican has not yet confirmed the report released by Agi.
It as previously been reported that Pope Francis is interested in Canonising Mother Theresa during the 2016 Year of Mercy, and Italian press reports in May also gave a September 4 2016 date for the canonisation.
According to Gerard O’Connell, the plan to canonize Teresa became official after the Vatican medical board recognized an “inexplicable cure” of a Brazilian person.
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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.
