Pope Francis named the Albanian nun a saint in front of tens of thousands in the Vatican Sunday morning.
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At the end of the Mass, the MC nuns showed three relics of the saint which have been in the chapel of their home since Mother Teresa’s beatification in 2003.
“I am honoured to have been invited, to fulfill (sic) the role as an ambassador to Kosovo, to sing at the canonisation of Mother Teresa”, she wrote alongside a snap of her singing inside the Basilica.
In an interview with VOA’s Mariama Diallo, Tukiçi said hearing that Mother Teresa was going to be a saint was a very special moment for him.
The pizzas were served by 250 of Mother Teresa’s sisters along with some 50 brothers of the male branch of the Missionaries, and other volunteers who offered their services for the occasion.
In Mother Teresa’s case, an Indian woman with a stomach tumor and a Brazilian man with a brain infection both say they were healed after prayers to the nun. “She should have been canonized a long time ago, because of all the saints she was just the most humble, and tiny little thing”. He’s the composer of Valse Celeste, a hymn dedicated to Mother Teresa, which was performed at the Vatican on the eve of the official event.
“The way she used to love people, poor people and everybody”.
And Mother Teresa captured the essence of motherhood, because she loved even the most
unlovable. In 1929, she moved to India as a sister of the Loreto Order.
Francis has never publicly mentioned this “darkness”, but he has in many ways modeled his papacy on Teresa and her simple lifestyle and selfless service to the poor: He eschewed the Apostolic Palace for a hotel room, made welcoming migrants and the poor a hallmark and has fiercely denounced today’s “throwaway” culture that discards the unborn, the sick and the elderly easily.
She becomes a saint after two miraculous cures of the sick were attributed to her following her death in 1997. The caring woman was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Soon thereafter, John Paul placed her on the fast-track for sainthood.
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She was born in 1910 to Albanian parents.
