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Mother Teresa will be given Sainthood as Pope Francis has recognised a second miracle attributed to her. The miracle involved the healing of a Brazilian man with several brain tumours in 2008, the Vatican said.
Mother Teresa was beatified in 2003 after Pope John Paul II accepted as authentic a miracle attributed to her.
Missionaries of Charity spokesperson Sunita Kumar has also confimed the news. Thursday, an Italian Catholic newspaper had also reported, Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church in September next year.
Avvenire, the official newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops conference, said on its website that Pope Francis Thursday approved a decree recognising a miracle attributed to her intercession with God.
Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 at the age of 87, was beatified in 2003 by the late Pope John Paul. Beatification, which requires one miracle is the last step before sainthood.
Avvenire said the 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, leaving doctors at a loss to explain how, the newspaper said.
Mother founded the Missionaries of Charity to help the poor on the streets of Kolkata and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
“The Holy Father has authorised the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to proclaim the decree concerning the miracle attributed to the intercession of blessed Mother Teresa,” the Vatican said on Friday.