– Pope Francis proclaimed Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, September 4 bestowing the Catholic Church’s highest honor on one of the most widely admired public figures in recent history, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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Saint Teresa now joins more than 10,000 saints in the Roman Catholic Church.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that sainthood for Mother Teresa is a “memorable and proud moment”, after her canonisation at the Vatican.
Mother Teresa would have been proud of this pizza party.
The unscripted comments came at a canonisation mass attended by 100,000 pilgrims, including 13 heads of state or government and hundreds of sari-clad nuns from Teresa’s order, the Missionaries of Charity.
In his homily, Pope Francis said Teresa was “a dispenser of divine mercy” who held world powers to account.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Aug. 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia. “He said Mother Teresa, she’s in the mood for strawberries so I brought her to the best place I knew where to get strawberries”.
“May her example inspire all of us to dedicate ourselves to the service of the poor and marginalised in our country”, Ansari said.
Throughout the course of her life, she received a Nobel Peace Prize, an honorary degree from the University of Cambridge and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She died 19 years ago nearly to the day, September 5, 1997 at the age of 87.
The Vatican granted her permission to leave the Sisters of Loreto and to live her new call under the guidance of the Archbishop of Calcutta. – On the occasion of the canonization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Pope Francis has made a decision to offer a pizza lunch to 1,500 poor and needy people cared for by the Missionaries of Charity throughout Italy.
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A miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, involving one Monica Besra who claimed that her prayer to the nun healed her stomach tumor, led to her beatification by Pope John Paul II in 2002.
