“The Holy Father has authorised the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to proclaim the decree concerning the miracle attributed to the intercession of blessed Mother Teresa”, the Vatican said on Friday.
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Though the exact date is yet to be finalised, Sunita Kumar said Mother’s canonisation is likely to take place around September, 2016.
“Her canonization to sainthood will bring hope and joy to everyone who dedicates oneself at the service of poor”, he said.
Mother Teresa second miracle involved the inexplicable healing of a Brazilian man who was suffering from a viral brain infection that resulted in multiple abscesses with hydrocephalus, according to Church officials.
She founded Missionaries of Charity, which helped poor people living in Calcutta at first before spreading internationally.
Mother Teresa was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu of Albanian parents in Macedonia in 1910 in what was then part of the Ottoman Empire.
Pope John Paul II has his arms around Mother Teresa as they greet the faithful in the Popemobile Feb. 3, 1986, just outside the Home for the Dying in Calcutta, India.
She was beatified six years after her death – which was the first step to sainthood.
At the age of 18, she joined the Irish order, the Sisters of Loreto, beginning life as a teaching nun at one of its sister houses in Kolkata.
Relatives prayed to Mother Teresa and he recovered, leaving doctors at a loss to explain how.
Expressing happiness over the development, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Mother’s sainthood was a great honour for the state.
She won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work in the Kolkata (Calcutta) slums.
The pontiff met the late nun in Rome in 1994 when he was a bishop, and joked a year ago that while he admired her strength, he “would have been scared if she had been my mother superior”.
Mother Teresa, a Nobel Peace Prize victor, died on September 5, 1997, aged 87.
Mother Teresa on May 15,1997. “This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work”.
Almost 20 years later, during a train ride in India, she felt a calling from Jesus to care for the poor, her Vatican biography said.
“I am absolutely delighted that it happens in my lifetime”, she also told AFP.
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During the beatification process, the Vatican called on Hitchens to play the ancient role of “devil’s advocate” and present arguments against her being blessed.
