'Sainthood' to be conferred on Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary, will be given Sainthood i.e. will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September 2016.

In this regrad Pope Francis has recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, intercession with God. Earlier in 2003, Mother Teresa was beatified by then late John Paul. Beatification requires one miracle and is the last step before sainthood.

Second miracle attributed to the intercession of Mother Teresa, which is required for canonisation, involved the inexplicable healing of a man, who was suffering from a deadly brain disease.Family members of the sufferer prayed to Mother Teresa and he recovered.

Key facts about Mother Teresa :

• Mother Teresa also known as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, was born on 26 August 1910, in  Skopje (modern Republic of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire, into a Kosovar Albanian family. She died at the age of 87 in 1997 in Kolkata.
• She was a Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary.  After having lived in Macedonia for some eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life
• Mother founded the Missionaries of Charity and spent 45-years serving the poor, sick, orphaned and dying on the streets of Kolkata. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Awards: Padma Shri (1962), Nobel Peace Prize (1979), Bharat Ratna (1980).