The nun whose name is already synonymous with being a saint is about to become a saint.
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The Vatican said Pope Francis had picked a date for Teresa’s so-called canonisation, but did not say where the religious service attached to it would take place.
She died in 1997, and was beatified by the now deceased Pope John Paul II, who approved a first posthumous miracle.
Dr. Joshua Mar Ignathios, the Metropolitan Bishop of the Eparchy of Mavelikkara of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, told IANS that according to him Mother Teresa was a “saint” even when she was alive.
Mother Teresa (L) gives her blessing to a child at the Gift of Love Home on October 20, 1993, in Singapore.
At the age of 18, she left her native country for Ireland, where she joined the Sisters of Loreto convent in Rathfarnham, Dublin, to learn English.
The committee of senior clerics that approves elevations to sainthood was due to meet from about 9am GMT with the long-awaited green light seen as a formality, less than two decades after her death.
She also won the 1979 Nobel peace prize for her work with the poor.
Mother Teresa will be made a saint on September 4. She founded the Missionaries of Charity, which runs hospices for people living with HIV and AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis. He investigated Mother Teresa’s life and relationships and questioned her saintly image, claiming that she urged the poor to peacefully accept their suffering and referred to the rich as favored by God.
Pope Francis officially announced Blessed Mother Teresa would be made a Saint Dec. 17, 2015, after deciding that the miraculous 2008 healing of a Brazilian man with a severe brain infection and kidney disease had been due to her intercession.
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) and died in Calcutta in 1997.
Monica Besra -a tribal woman from West Bengal’s South Dinajpur district- whose “miracle” cure was instrumental in Mother’s beatification, is also expected to accompany the delegation to the Vatican.
In this file picture taken, 12 April 1995, Mother Teresa smiles as she poses for photographers in Calcutta. She had asked that the monetary award be given to the poor in India.
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“Mother Teresa’s canonization means that the Mother’s message will become better known”, said Sister Christi, one of the senior nuns at the Kolkata headquarters of the order.
