Mother Teresa to be made Roman Catholic SAINT in September, Pope Francis says



    

Photo: Mother Teresa will be made a Roman Catholic saint on September 4. (Raveendran: AFP)

The Catholic Pope has announced that Mother Teresa, the nun who dedicated her life to helping the poor, will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.
 

Pope Francis made the announcement at a meeting of cardinals.

A thanksgiving ceremony will also be held at a later date in the Indian city where Teresa is buried.

The Albanian nun, 87 when she died in 1997, was revered by many Catholics and won the 1979 Nobel peace prize for her work with the poor.


Teresa took the first step to sainthood in 2003 when she was beatified by Pope John Paul II following a fast-track process involving the recognition of a claim she had posthumously inspired the 1998 healing of a critically-ill Bengali tribal woman.

Last year she was credited by Vatican experts with inspiring the 2008 recovery of a Brazilian man suffering from multiple brain tumours, thus meeting the Church's standard requirement for sainthood of having been involved in two certifiable miracles


Source:abc

From other news sites:

• USA Today: Vatican: Mother Teresa canonization decree expected Tuesday
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