Mother Teresa Officially Became a Saint Today in Rome

She founded the religious congregation “Missionaries of Charity”, which still has thousands of sisters working around the world.

Pope Francis responded: “We declare and define Blessed Teresa of Calcutta to be a saint and we enrol her among the saints, decreeing that she is to be venerated as such by the whole Church”.

A tapestry depicting Mother Teresa hangs from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Francis, standing at bottom, celebrates a a Canonization Mass at the Vatican, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. More than 100,000 people gathered there to honor now St. Teresa, who’s known around the world for helping the neediest people of Kolkata, India. The second miracle was the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors after loved ones prayed to her, the Italian Catholic bishops’ association’s official newspaper Avvenire reported.

Several nuns from the Missionaries of Charity were in attendance, wearing the trademark white and blue saris. “I think she preached a very negative, very medieval, obscurantist ideology”.

At this occasion, Sister Anna Maria Mendez said, “It’s so attractive, I was moved by Mother Teresa’s works, and moved by this ceremony”. Pope John Paul II was the pope at the time and he waived the five-year waiting period. During a mass there meant to celebrate Teresa’s sainthood, Auxiliary Bishop John R. Manz offered the congregation “St. Mother Teresa”.

“We are proud of her”.

At Kochuthura, near here, where Mother Teresa personally established a convent, Latin Archbishop Soosa Pakiam led a special mass.

For the Rev. Brian Kolodiejchuk, the Canadian priest who spearheaded Teresa’s saint-making campaign, the revelations were further confirmation of Mother Teresa’s heroic saintliness.

Pope Francis celebrated the canonization of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun on Sunday by inviting 1,500 homeless people from around Italy to lunch in the Vatican after the ceremony.

Mother Teresa died 19 years ago.

In his column in the Archdiocese’s publication Angelus News, Gomez called Mother Teresa “one of my favorite saints”.