She was someone who “taught us to contemplate and adore Jesus every day, and to recognize Him and serve Him as well as to recognize and serve our brothers in need”, Pope Francis addressing thousands in the Saint Peter’s Square. It was here that Mother Teresa had offered her mid-day prayer when she vowed to work for the city’s poor.
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The church will also adopt the most recent spelling of the city, Kolkata making the official new name, “Saint Teresa of Kolkata”.
The canonization ceremony took place under a broiling sun before a crowd of 120,000 in St. Peter’s Square, according to Vatican estimates.
“She said after visiting an adult care facility, ‘You have many material things here in the United States, but you have the greatest poverty of loneliness”, recalled Father Bob Kantor.
Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint at morning Mass in Vatican.
Mother Teresa, the Albanian nun who dedicated her life to working with the poor and underserved in India’s darkest corners, was officially canonized into Sainthood by Pope Francis at the Vatican in Rome on Sunday.
“She found the lord’s mercy in the squalor of Calcutta, and she became a vessel of that mercy for those she approached”, preached Soto.
“We may have some difficulty in calling her ‘Saint Teresa, her holiness is so near to us, so near to us, so tender and so fruitful that we continue to spontaneously call her Mother”, Pope Francis said.
Throughout her life, she touched many lives all around the world, including some in Southwest Florida.
Mother Teresa, the nun whose work with the dying and destitute of Kolkata made her a global icon of Christian charity, was made a saint on Sunday.
She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950.
Dolan and those in attendance at St. Patrick’s Cathedral remembered Mother Teresa as a role model for their lives and the lives of countless others. He expedited the process and approved her first miracle after her 1997 death.
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Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Aug. 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia.
