Pope Francis officially declared Mother Teresa a saint before a crowded St. Peter’s Square Sunday morning, 19 years after her death.
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Pope Francis however, held world powers to account “for the crimes of poverty they created”.
John Paul II further paved the way for her beatification in 2002, when he approved a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa after her death.
In India, a special Mass was celebrated at the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded in Kolkata (Calcutta). “Her holiness is so near to us, so tender and so fruitful, that we continue to spontaneously call her Mother”.
The Missionaries of Charity order went on to become one of the most well-known in the world, with more than 4,000 sisters in their trademark blue-trimmed white saris doing as Teresa instructed: “small things with great love”. Mother Teresa set up her Missionaries of Charity in the slums of Kolkata, in 1950 and established her headquarters in the Indian city for almost half a century.
After the canonization service, the pope treated 1,500 homeless people from across Italy to Neapolitan pizza served by members of Mother Teresa’s order. The photograph had a halo around her face, something which only a saint can have, a nun said.
Hundreds of the Mother’s followers made a beeline for the place and offered prayers, bowing at, and touching, her grave.
Sister Fatima recalls her time being guided by Mother Teresa in Calcutta.
Mumbai: To celebrate the canonisation of Mother Teresa as a saint, IndiaPost on Sunday released a commemorative postage stamp on her.
“She had a great impact, this place was just shining like a star”, said Kaliea “She had a glow on her face, and she was a totally wrinkled woman, but still so lovely”.
Obviously, both will leave a legacy of devotion to the poor.
She died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87 and was beatified by the Holy See in October 2003.
In 1950, she got permission to open her own order in Kolkata, the Missionaries of Charity, with the objective of caring for those who had no one to look after them.
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On June 22nd, 1985, the then Mother Teresa visited St.
