The Missionaries of Charity (MC) has expressed delight over Pope Francis approving the promulgation of a decree recognising a miracle to be attributed to Mother Teresa, the institution’s founder.
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Pope Francis signed the decree authorizing the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who will go to the altar as holy next September.
“The first one (miracle) was in Kolkata many years ago”.
A Brazilian man claims he was healed of brain tumors after family members prayed to the famed nun.
According to an Italian Catholic newspaper, Pope Francis will announce Mother Teresa’s sainthood in September 2016, which coincides with her 19th death anniversary. In 2003, Mother Teresa was beatified as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta” after healing a tumor.
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Catholic congregation of women that served the destitute and engaged in aid work around the world.
In Kolkata, Sunita Kumar, spokeswoman for Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity religious order said the nuns were “over the moon” when they got the news. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. “We feel deeply inspired by her and her example will accompany us throughout this Jubilee”, D’Souza said.
After having lived in Macedonia for some 18 years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
While the sainthood will end the wait for her patient followers, on the other hand, it will bring the curtain down on the specialised film fest, organisers said on Friday.
“To her own prayers of intercession were joined those of her relatives, friends, and the parish priest, all of whom were praying for a miraculous cure through the intercession of Mother Teresa”, the Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center said in a statement.
The column in Avvenire by Stefania Falasca said the pontiff’s action came three days after a Vatican panel of cardinals and bishops affirmed the judgment of medical experts and theologians who concluded that there was no medical explanation for the apparent cure. The Vatican had to confirm an additional miracle before granting sainthood, and did so on Thursday.
She described herself, “By blood, I am Albanian”.
After spending 45-years serving the poor, the sick, the orphaned, and the dying on the streets of Kolkata, she died at the age of 87 in her favorite city in 1997. Two miracles are required for sainthood.
The church defines saints as those believed to have been holy enough during their lives to now be in Heaven with God.
There she took her Final Profession of Vows and became Mother Teresa.
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The order she started – the Missionaries of Charity – continues its outreach to the “poorest of the poor”.
