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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The miracle needed for her canonisation concerned the inexplicable cure in 2008 of a man in Brazil with multiple brain abscesses who, within a day of being in a coma, was cured.
The Pope approved a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa’s intercession – making her eligible for sainthood, the Vatican said. In 1946, while traveling by train from Calcutta to Darjeeling, she was inspired to found the Missionaries of Charity order.
Sister Ita of the Missionaries of Charity was quoted by NBC News, “We are all absolutely delighted about the news”. A priest from the Lafayette-area who know her says there’s no one more deserving.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Catholic Church normally requires one “medical” miracle before a deceased Catholic can be declared “blessed”, and another such miracle, occurring after that declaration, before he or she can be canonized as a saint. Sunita Kumar, Missionaries of Charity spokesperson, said: “We have now received an official confirmation from Vatican that a second miracle had been confirmed by the Church and that the Mother would be given sainthood”.
“As Christians here in America – especially when there are so many people who are poor or homeless, out of work, hungry, especially children – she should be a model for how we should be leading our lives”. She was born in Macedonia and her parents were Albanian.
Pope John Paul II waived the requirement of waiting five years after a person’s death to pursue the path to sainthood and opened Mother Teresa’s Cause of Canonization less than two years after her death.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Nobel Peace Prize victor, died on September 5 1997, aged 87. “She’s now a full saint in the church, and I hope, still my friend”. She died in 1997 in Kolkata, where she was granted a state funeral, despite the controversy surrounding her.
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The festival will feature some iconic cinema based on Mother Teresa such as “Something Beautiful for God”, the 1969 BBC documentary said to be the first film on her work, “Mother Teresa and Her World” (1979), the second film on her by Japanese filmmaker Shigeki Chiba as well as “Mother Teresa” Aby Asisters Ann and Jeanette Petrie, said Lucas.
