Roman Catholic Church after Pope Francis recognised a second medical miracle of the late nun to clear the decks for her elevation.
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The Vatican later said that at the time of the man’s surgery, his wife was praying for Mother Teresa’s intercession alongside her pastor.
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Church observers said the pope would probably canonize Mother Teresa next year on Sunday, Sept. 4, the day before the anniversary of her death.
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Mother Teresa, who was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu to Albanian parents in Spokje, the capital of modern Macedonia, in 1910, founded the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity and the Missionaries of Charity. After she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, Harvard University invited her to give their annual class day speech in 1982.
Mother Teresa died in 1997 at the age of 87.
Yesterday, Pope Francis approved the second miracle needed to kick off the canonization process which would make her an official saint.
She was beatified as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
Teresa was the foundress of the Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity and the Missionaries of Charity, and has been recognized for her devotion serving the poor in the Indian city of Calcutta.
“Bergoglio had Mother Teresa behind him, nearby, and he heard her intervene often with great strength, without letting herself in any way be intimidated by this assembly of bishops”, the Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, later recounted.
The first human being to recognize Jesus when He came in the flesh was an unborn child, John the Baptist, she said.
According to the church, the qualifying miracle was when the late missionary’s intercession healed a Brazilian man’s brain tumors in 2008. The patient was taken for an emergency operation on December 9, but the neurosurgeon returned to find the patient awake and without pain.
Nuns from the Missionaries of Charity attend mass to commemorate the 105th birthday of Mother Teresa in Kolkata.
BENGAL CM CONGRATULATES MC ON TERESA SAINTHOOD West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday congratulated Missonaries of Charity (MC) on the Vatican decision to elevate Mother Teresa to sainthood.
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Other critics, most prominently Christopher Hitchens, have questioned her alliances with the rich and unethical, such as Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, from whom she raised funds; the conditions in her home for the dying; and her opposition to birth control. Her funeral, in Calcutta, was a national event in India in which millions accompanied her corpse through the streets of the city.
