A Nobel Peace Prize victor in 1979, Mother Teresa’s elevation to Catholicism’s celestial pantheon comes on the eve of the 19th anniversary of her death in the Kolkata slums with which she is synonymous.
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Thousands of people are expected to gather in front of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome on Sunday for the canonisation service by Pope Francis, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics.
Monsignor Bear, who knew Mother Teresa personally, works with the order she founded The Missionaries of Charity all over the world.
VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Francis is urging people to resist what “the temptation to indifference” to suffering in a speech on the eve of a ceremony to formally proclaim Mother Teresa a saint.
Her critics plainly have other priorities. The nuns are then said to have pressed a religious medallion on her belly – and when she awoke a few hours later, she was cured. She chose this name to honour her patron saint.
“There is no scientific evidence to prove the claims”, Ghosh said in Kolkata. In 1946 Mother Teresa received what she would later describe as a “call within a call”. The Norwegian Nobel Committee writes in their motivation: “In making the award the Norwegian Nobel Committee has expressed its recognition of Mother Teresa’s work in bringing help to suffering humanity. I gave permission so they would let her in (because of the heavy security measures) but I didn’t tell anyone about it. “But the love and care here has given me a new life”, the 50-year-old said.
Monica’s sister took her to the Missionaries of Charity centre near the village. “When such a person is conferred with sainthood, it is natural for Indians to feel proud”, Modi said on Sunday in a radio broadcast.
“To have touched a saint, and been in her presence, that humble, beautiful, kind lady is my fondest memory”, Capella said, still feeling wonder about that special day.
Some former volunteers say her order glorifies pain and poverty and accuse it of delivering bare-bones care, despite receiving millions of dollars in donations.
Known as the “Saint of the Gutters” for her unending work and compassion for the poor, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
For years, she worked with the poor and sick in Kolkata, India. Many at the Vatican would agree, but the Catholic Church nevertheless has a grueling process to make it official, .
The nuns and sisters who are attached to the Missionaries of Charity had seen Mother Teresa serving the poor and the ailing in the city for many years from a very close quarter and have been anxiously waiting to watch the ceremony on television.
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The late Pope John Paul II bent Vatican rules to allow the procedure to establish her case for sainthood to be launched two years after her death instead of the usual five, and she was beatified in 2003. The process usually can not be started until 5 years after the person has died, but Mother Teresa received a waiver from Pope John Paul II.
