Mother Teresa to be made saint on September 04,2016

 

Mother Teresa will be made a saint on September 4,2016 Pope Francis announced on Tuesday March 15,2016, 19 years after the death of the Nobel Laureate who spent 45 years serving the poor and sick on the streets of Kolkata. 

 

“Pope Francis today Tuesday March 15,2016 approved Mother Teresa’s elevation to sainthood and set September 4 as the date for her canonisation,” said a message from the Vatican to the Mother’s House, the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. 

Mother 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.

The elevation of Mother Teresa to sainthood came after the Church recognised a second miracle earlier, the Missionaries of Charity said. 

“We have now received an official confirmation from Vatican that Pope Francis has approved Mother’s sainthood and set September 4 as the date for her canonisation. We are very excited and happy about it,” Missionaries of Charity Spokesperson Sunita Kumar said.

Archbishop Thomas D’Souza said that the canonisation is a formality but an important one.

“This is the last step that the Pope needs the cardinal and sign the decree,” D’Souza said

Mother Teresa, who will now be a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was beatified by then pope John Paul II in a fast-tracked process in 2003. 

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 tumour. The traditional canonisation procedure requires at least two miracles. 

“The first miracle was performed in Kolkata many years ago. The second one was performed in Brazil, where a person had been healed miraculously as a result of her earlier prayers,” Kumar said, adding that such miracles were known to happen even after the death of a saint. 

Kumar, who worked closely with the Mother, said the late nun was an extraordinary woman who believed that hard work was the best way to serve God.