When she was alive, she came in India in 1929 as a sister of the Loreto order. The Knights of Columbus commissioned the official portrait that hung on the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica for all in the square to see and reverence.
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As the eyes of the world were turned to The Vatican for Sunday’s canonisation of Mother Teresa, some in Ipswich remembered the day that the future saint visited the town.
Faisal likewise recalled how his father frequently spoke of Mother Teresa and her work, saying her acts of selfless generosity should serve as an example to Muslims. Pope Francis presented Mother Teresa’s opposition to abortion and her dedication to the poor as facets of a single mission.
A canonisation mass attended by 1,00,000 pilgrims, including 13 heads of state, has rightly reflected the love for the mother who had made her holiness came so near to the commoners in her entire life.
“I said, ‘If she could do so much, where am I?”
In a departure from his scripted remarks, he noted that people “may struggle” to refer to her as “Saint Teresa”.
“She had that lovely saying, ‘God doesn’t want us to be flawless, he only wants us to be faithful.’ And she was faithful even in times of trial”, Dolan said.
“They traveled all night by bus to participate first in the canonization and then in the lunch”, Archbishop Konrad Krajewski told Breitbart. She dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor and show love to the dying.
Applause broke out before he completed the formula of canonization, in which he declared “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta to be a saint”.
Mother Teresa died this day, nineteen years ago.
And according to Monica Besra, she said praying to the nun cured a stomach tumor – and the Vatican in 2002 couldn’t find a “scientific explanation” for her recovery.
In India, a special mass was celebrated at the Missionaries of Charity – the order sh founded in Kolkata.
By historical standards, Saint Teresa has been fast-tracked to sainthood. I know for sure that she lived a like a saint.
“You hear Mother Teresa and it’s somebody who has sacrificed and given their life to the poor and the sick”, says Albert Schadwill.
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A Nobel peace laureate, her legacy complements Pope Francis’s vision of a humble church that strives to serve the poor, and the festivities in her honour are a highlight of his Holy Year of Mercy, which runs until November 8. Only Pope John Paul II was named a saint within a shorter span of time, just nine years after his death.
