Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Nobel laureate who
dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor, will be made a
saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September 2016, an Italian
Catholic newspaper reported on Thursday Dec 17,2015
Avvenire,
the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops conference, said
on its website that Pope Francis had earlier on Thursday approved a
decree recognising a miracle attributed to her intercession with God.
Mother
Teresa, who died in 1997 at the age of 87, was beatified in 2003 by the
late Pope John Paul. Beatification, which requires one miracle, is the
last step before sainthood.
Avvenire said the
second miracle attributed to the intercession of Mother Teresa, which is
required for canonisation, involved the inexplicable healing of a man
who was suffering from a deadly brain disease.
Family members prayed to Mother Teresa and he recovered, leaving doctors at a loss to explain how, the newspaper said.
A Vatican spokesman said he had no information about the report.
The
paper, which has been well informed about similar stories in the past,
said the pope would most likely hold a canonisation ceremony for Mother
Teresa in early September.
Note
Mother Teresa was born
Anjezš Gonxhe Bojaxhiu of Albanian parents in Macedonia in 1910 in what
was then part of the Ottoman Empire.
She founded the Missionaries of Charity to help the poor on the streets of Calcutta and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
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