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Sunday Sep 04, 2016: Mother Teresa canonised:
Mother Teresa declared saint by Pope Francis at Vatican.

Mother Teresa, revered for her work with the poor in India, has been proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican. Francis said St Teresa had defended the unborn, sick and abandoned, and had shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created". Tens of thousands of pilgrims attended the canonisation in St Peter's Square.
Two apparent cures of sick people after Mother Teresa's death in 1997 have been attributed to her intercession. In India, a special Mass was celebrated at the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded in Kolkata (Calcutta).
Exclusive Coverage from The Vatican on Mother Teresa's Canonisation Ceremony on Sunday,Sep 04, 2016.



Cardinal Angelo Amato read a brief biography of Mother Teresa's work, then asked the Pope to canonise her in the name of the Church. Pope Francis responded: "We declare and define Blessed Teresa of Calcutta to be a saint and we enrol her among the saints, decreeing that she is to be venerated as such by the whole Church."
She died in 1997 - aged 87 - and was beatified in 2003, the first step to sainthood. In 2002, the Vatican ruled that an Indian woman's stomach tumour had been miraculously cured after prayers to Mother Teresa, despite the doubts of her husband. Pope Francis cleared the way for sainthood last year when he recognised a second miracle attributed to her. Her work complements Francis' vision of a Church that serves the underprivileged.
Her canonisation is a centrepiece of his Jubilee Year of Mercy. Catholics -- including hundreds of blue- and white-robed nuns from the Missionaries of Charity sisterhood founded by Mother Teresa , had gathered from around the world to attend the canonization of the church's newest saint, just 19 years after her death.

A huge portrait of Mother Teresa, whom the church credits with having performed two miraculous cures of the sick, hung from St. Peter's Basilica during the colorful ceremony. Mother Teresa - who was born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 in what is now Macedonia - was proclaimed a saint almost 19 years to the day after her death in 1997. Conforming with the process of canonisation, two miracles were deemed to have been performed after she died, both involving the alleged cure of terminally ill people. She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1979. She said she did not deserve the award but accepted it "in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless; of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society".

Life of Mother Teresa.

How did Mother Teresa become a saint?
Many believe Blessed Mother Teresa will be named a saint of the Catholic Church someday, and her beatification is the latest step in that path to sainthood. On Oct. 19, 2003, Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta, who died in 1997.
What does it mean to be canonized?
Canonization is the act by which the Orthodox, Oriental Orthodoxy, Roman Catholic, or Anglican Church declares that a person who has died was a saint, upon which declaration the person is included in the canon, or list, of recognized saints.
What did Mother Teresa do for people?
Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was a Roman Catholic nun, who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. She spent many years in Calcutta, India where shed founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation devoted to helping those in great need.