The move comes after a panel of experts, convened three days ago by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, attributed a miraculous healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumours to Mother Teresa.
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Pope Francis has discovered another medical miracle performed by late Mother Teresa, taking the Nobel laureate a bit more closer to the Sainthood that is to be attributed to her next year.
Avennire, the newspaper affiliated with the Italian bishops’ conference, said on its website that Francis approved the miracle during an audience Thursday afternoon, his 79th birthday.
Mother Teresa was beatified in October 2003 by now deceased Pope John Paul II.
“Meanwhile, from March 2008, the patient’s wife continuously sought the intercession of Blessed Mother Teresa for her husband”.
According to a Catholic newspaper, she will be canonised on 4 September 2016 as part of Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy – as proclaimed by the Pope.
Mother Teresa was born of Albanian parents in Macedonia in 1910 and came to India in 1929.
She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1949, and dedicating her life to caring for impoverished and sick people in the Indian city of Kolkata. Mother Teresa was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979.
Missionaries of Charity, established by Mother Teresa has expressed its delight over the developments in Vatican which has cleared the path for her sainthood.
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The Vatican has not confirmed the miracle’s recognition and has no comment on the report.
