Saint Mother Teresa from September 4

Mother Teresa to be canonised on September 4 announced by the Pope at a meeting with cardinals in the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on March 15.

The decision came after the healing of a Brazilian man with a brain infection and kidney disease due to her intercession in the year 2008.

The Catholic Church requires two “medical” miracle in order to declare a deceased Catholic to be a “blessed,” and a “saint”. St. John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa in 2003 after recognizing the first miracle when an Indian woman was healed after the caregiver prayed to the late missionary.

Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje (modern Macedonia) then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. At the age of 17 she joined Sisters of Loretto and came to Calcutta, India.

While travelling to Darjeeling she felt what she called an order from God to leave the convent and live among the poor. She began working in the slums, teaching the poor children and treating the sick in their homes. Later in the year 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious order dedicated to care of the “poorest of the poor,” in Calcutta.

She also won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979 and left the world on September 5, 1997.

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