Sunday, 4 September 2016

Blessings. 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 miraculous cures of the sick 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).
An hour with the Saint of the Slums
What happened to the critics?
How to become a saint
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."
The Pope said Mother Teresa had spent her life
"bowing down before those who were spent, left to die
on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given
dignity".
He added: "She made her voice heard before the
powers of the world, so that they might recognise their
guilt for the crimes of poverty they themselves
created." He then repeated: "The crimes of poverty
they themselves created.". *copied bbc*

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