Usually, the canonization process for sainthood happens only five years after the candidate is dead, according to The Mystical Humanity of Christ Publishing.
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A Brazilian man claims he was healed of brain tumors after family members prayed to the famed nun.
For people who might not understand, beneath the Catholic Church, the announcement of sainthood is determined by the performance of two wonders.
Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, which is now the capital of Macedonia, on August 26, 1910.
Mother Teresa is most known for caring for the poorest of the poor. Mother Teresa was beatified in 2003 after Pope John Paul II accepted as authentic a miracle attributed to her.
An official date for the canonization ceremony has not yet been announced, but Italian media expect the celebration to be sometime next September.
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Mother Teresa, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, died in India in 1997.
She founded the Missionaries of Charity with about a dozen nuns in the 1950s to help the poor on the streets of Calcutta and the religious order spread throughout the world. “Let us ask her to intercede that we may also be the bearers of God’s mercy to those who desperately need His mercy”, he said in an interview.
“The first one (miracle) was in Kolkata many years ago”.
Mother Teresa spent much of her life as the head of an organization that runs homes and hospices for people with HIV/ADS, leprosy and tuberculosis.
“Bergoglio had Mother Teresa behind him, nearby, and he heard her intervene often with great strength, without letting herself in any way be intimidated by this assembly of bishops”, Vatican spokesman Rev Federico Lombardi later recounted.
“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.
Nicknamed the “Saint of the Gutters”, she dedicated her life to the poor, the sick and the dying in the slums of Kolkata, one of India’s biggest cities, founding the Missionaries of Charity order of nuns there.
“That is why it is such a bad thing to think that the mother, to whom the child has been given as a gift of God, could destroy it”, she says.
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The Vatican took note of her charity and encouraged her to open various organizations in other parts of the world until they were on every continent.
