Pope Francis has cleared the way for her sainthood by approving a decree recognising a miracle attributed to her intercession with God.
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Beatification by the Catholic Church requires one miracle, while the process of becoming recognized as a saint requires proof of at least two miracles.
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The miracle involved the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumours in 2008.
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Apparently, according to the testimonies given, those close to the patient prayed much to Mother Teresa, to which the patient’s wife was especially devoted. Pope Francis has given final clearance for Mother Teresa – called “the saint of the gutters” for her work with the poor in India – to become an official saint, a move welcomed by the archbishop of Calcutta as “a real Christmas gift” from the pontiff.
The Vatican on Friday set no date for the canonization, but it is widely believed that it will take place in the first week of September to coincide with the 19th anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death and during Francis’ Holy Year of Mercy.
One exception to Mother Teresa’s sainthood compared to other is that her rise to sainthood will be celebrated in more than four countries as she was born in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, to ethnic Albanians from Kosovo, and she lived most of her life in India.
Her missionary order in Kolkata – formerly known as Calcutta – said it was “thrilled” and grateful to the Pope.
Mother Teresa who died on September 5, 1997, aged 87 had also faced criticism for the methods adopted in providing health care and also for her rejection of contraception and medicine. She established Missionaries of Charity to serve the poorest of all.
BENGAL CM CONGRATULATES MC ON TERESA SAINTHOOD West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday congratulated Missonaries of Charity (MC) on the Vatican decision to elevate Mother Teresa to sainthood.
He judged that the curing of an Indian woman suffering from an abdominal tumour was the result of the supernatural intervention of the late Mother Teresa.
The Vatican has revealed that after years of speculation, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be finally made a saint. He approved a first posthumous miracle.
She dedicated her life to caring for impoverished and sick people in Kolkata.
The Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, the postulator spearheading Mother Teresa’s canonization case, said in a statement Friday that some 30 minutes after the man was due to undergo surgery that never took place, he sat up, awake and without pain, and was a day later declared to be symptom-free.
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Mother Teresa was well-respected for her courageous and forthright views against abortion. “We are not able to understand Him”, she said as she went about supervising the rescue operation.
