Mother Teresa To be Declared A Saint at Canonisation Ceremony In Vatican on Sunday Ssep 04,2016

Mother Teresa of Calcutta is all set to be declared a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis at 10.30 am on September 4 — 2 pm in India — at a special Mass in St Peter’s Square, Vatican City.

The long journey of a young Albanian girl who left home at 18 to serve the poorest of the poor as a loving mother will culminate with the Canonisation Ceremony at The Vatican.

In spite of her private misery, she persevered, and had a special love for the poor and the marginalized. Mother Teresa, who was beatified in 2003 as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta", had two verified miracles to her credit.

Widely hailed as a saint during her lifetime for her piety and devotion to the poor, Mother Teresa won worldly accolades, including -

• 1962 Magsaysay Award
• 1979 Nobel Peace Prize
• 1980 Bharat Ratna

Born in 1910 to ethnic Albanian parents, Agnese Gonxha Bojaxhiu grew up in what is now the Macedonian capital, Skopje, but was then part of the Ottoman Empire.

Aged 19, she joined the Irish order of Loreto and in 1929 was sent to India, where she taught at a school in Darjeeling under the name of Therese

In 1946 she moved to Kolkata to help the destitute and, after a decade, set up a hospice and a home for abandoned children.

She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. The sisterhood now has 4,500 nuns worldwide.