Mother Teresa’s canonization date expected on March 15
Pope Francis will hold an
ordinary public consistory of cardinals in the Vatican March 15, during which
he will sign the decree for the canonization of Blessed Mother Teresa of
Kolkata and four others. The dates and venue of their sainthood
ceremony are expected to be declared at the consistory. Pope Francis had
officially cleared Blessed Mother Teresa for sainthood on Dec. 17, 2015,
recognizing the miraculous healing through her intercession of a Brazilian man
with multiple brain abscesses. Mother Teresa was conferred the
title Blessed in Rome, Italy, on October 19, 2003, after Pope St. John Paul II
recognized the miraculous healing of an Indian woman with a tumour in her
abdomen.
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
of Albanian parents on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, in what is Macedonia
today, Mother Teresa died in Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, on September 5, 1997.
Affectionately known as the "saint of the gutter" for her
unconditional love for the poor, abandoned and the marginalized, she earned
several international honours, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
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