Kolkata, Dec 19: Mother Teresa, the Nobel Laureate who spent 45 years serving the poor and sick on the streets of Kolkata, will be made a Saint of Roman Catholic Church after Pope Francis recognised a second medical miracle of the late nun to clear the decks for her elevation.
Known as the “saint of the gutters”, the diminutive nun is expected to be canonised in early September.
Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity and spent 45 years serving the poor, the sick, the orphaned, and the dying on the streets of Kolkata. She died at the age of 87 in Kolkata in 1997.
According to Catholic newspaper Avvenire, Mother Teresa is expected to be officially canonised in Rome on September 4 as part of the pope’s Jubilee year of mercy.
The move came after a panel of experts, convened three days ago by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, attributed a miraculous healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors to Mother Teresa, Avvenire reported.
In 2002, the Vatican officially recognised a miracle she was said to have carried out after her death, namely the 1998 healing of a Bengali tribal woman, Monika Besra, who was suffering from an abdominal tumor. The traditional canonisation procedure requires at least two miracles
