News of the pope’s approval, confirmed Friday by the Vatican, was first reported late Thursday by the newspaper of the Italian bishops’ conference, Avvenire.
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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.
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“With the recognition of this second miracle the Church will soon acknowledge Blessed Teresa as one amongst the communion of saints”, he said.
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The miracle that the Vatican took note of before deciding to award sainthood to Mother Teresa involved the curing of a serious brain infection in a Brazilian man, said Father Brain Kolodiejchiuk, a Missionaries of Charity Father who worked very closely with the nun for 20 years.
Apparently, according to the testimonies given, those close to the patient prayed much to Mother Teresa, to which the patient’s wife was especially devoted.
The victor of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize will most likely be canonized on September 4, 2016, on the anniversary of her death, a date that is expected to be finalized during the next Consistory, ANSA sources said. It was not clear if the ceremony would take place in Rome or if the pope would travel to India to preside over it.
“Mother Teresa is a holy gift to Calcutta, for the Church and for the whole of India”.
“Her entire life was spent in service to the poor…she was reflecting God’s love here among the poorest of the poor, and so it comes as a very significant event in this Year of Mercy that the Holy Father has given to the Church”, the Archbishop added.
She died on September 5, 1997, aged 87. After working with the Sisters of Loreto till 1948, she founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1949.
The Pope granted Mother Teresa of Calcutta her second miracle in order for her to move forward with the process.
Francis met Mother Teresa in 1994 at a Vatican synod.
Clearing the path for Mother Teresa’s elevation to sainthood, the Vatican has recognised a second miracle of the nun.
“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”.
Albania, which still claims her remains, named the airport, a square and a hospital in the capital Tirana after her, has made October 19, the day she was beatified, a national public holiday.
When the neurosurgeon returned to the operating room, he watched the patient sitting, awake, without pain, perfectly conscious and wondering what he was doing there.
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She joined the Loreto order of nuns in 1928 and in 1946, while travelling by train from Calcutta to Darjeeling, was inspired to found the Missionaries of Charity order.
