Mother Teresa’s canonization in Vatican City by Pope Francis came one day before the 19th anniversary of her death.
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Sunday’s post-canonization lunch took place in the ample Paul VI hall, which serves as a center for meetings and large gatherings in the Vatican City. “Mother Teresa belonged to Kolkata, and she has been declared a saint“. Salvatore Pennacchio, who is the Apostolic Nuncio in India, flew down from New Delhi to attend the special occasion. Two apparent cures of sick people have been attributed to her.
Mother Teresa spent her life sacrificing for the poor, destitute and disabled – our planet’s most vulnerable.
When she died on September 5, 1997 at 87, her only possessions were her Bible, her prayer beads and her sari, but she left a huge legacy.
At the end of the Mass, Missionaries of Charity Father Brian Kolodiejchuk thanked Pope Francis for canonizing Mother Teresa.
Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint at morning Mass in Vatican. Mother Teresa set up her Missionaries of Charity in the slums of Kolkata, in 1950 and established her headquarters in the Indian city for almost half a century.
Born in 1910 in Skopje, then part of the Kosovo Vilayet, Teresa lived the majority of her life in Kolkata (Calcutta), India.
“She was a presence definitely as I was growing up”. In 1946, she received what she described as a “call within a call” to found a new order dedicated to caring for the most unloved and unwanted, the “poorest of the poor”. “All of those things she taught us herself”, she said.
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“There were people there from everywhere in the world, Australia, Europe, United States, and we were working in the orphanage helping to feed the children, changing diapers, there must have been 300 kids in this orphanage”, Schaefer said. “She said to bring the presence of my sisters is to proclaim the love of Jesus”, Curlin said. Local 6’s Juliana Valencia sat down with an area priest Sunday who met her more than 20 years ago.
