Pope Francis has recognised a second miracle attributed to the late Mother Teresa, clearing the path for the nun to be elevated to sainthood next year, the Vatican said Friday.
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A panel of experts, convened three days ago by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, attributed the miraculous healing to Mother Teresa, Avvenire’s Vatican expert Stefania Falasca reported on Thursday.
The Vatican later attributed the cure to the fervent prayers to Mother Teresa’s intercession by the man’s wife, who at the time of his scheduled surgery was at her parish church praying alongside her pastor.
The official canonization ceremony for Mother Teresa will likely be held in September 2016 to coincide with both Pope Francis’ Holy Year of Mercy and the 19th anniversary of her death, according to NBC.
Mother Teresa was born in Skopje in 1910 and later moved to India to devote her life to caring for the poor.
But saints aren’t going away anytime soon, and Francis has actually made the process easier in some ways by doing away with the miracle requirement for several high-profile saints.
That’s right, the spokesperson of the group, the Missionaries of Charity, said it’s fabulous news. What she said there was so unsettling to the Harvard establishment that they never published the text of her speech.
“We thank God of the great gift he bestowed on us with Mother Teresa”.
Beloved for her work with the needy, particularly in India, Mother Teresa visited the Pioneer Valley in 1985.
When she was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003, just six years after her death in 1997, the event drew more than 300,000 people to St. Peter’s Square in Rome.
At age 18, sure she wanted to become a missionary, she joined an Irish convent, where she received the name Sister Mary Teresa.
The Catholic Church makes saints to provide role models for the faithful, and Pope Francis has followed in the footsteps of his predecessors in churning them out at a rapid clip. “Everyone was accepted and there was no obstruction in her work”. In 2008 he was in a coma and dying, suffering from an accumulation of fluid around the brain.
Known as the “saint of the gutters”, the diminutive nun is expected to be canonized – formally made a saint – in early September. By citizenship, an Indian.
Known as the “saint of the gutter”, she earned worldwide acclaim for her efforts.
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Mother Teresa was criticised by some for her staunch Catholic beliefs on abortion and divorce, and for accepting the Legion d’honneur from Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier.
