Mother Teresa declared Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Pope Francis in the Vatican city.
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Mother Teresa declared Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Pope Francis in the Vatican city.

Mother Teresa declared Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Pope Francis in the Vatican city.September | Sunday | 04, 2016 :: Pope Francis on Sunday declared Mother Teresa of Kolkata a Saint of the Catholic Church in front of thousands of pilgrims at St. Peter’s Square  in the Vatican

The canonisation mass, led by Pope Francis, took place under a huge portrait of the Albanian nun, who established the Missionaries of Charity order in Kolkata in 1950. The order now runs 758 homes, hospices and shelters in 139 countries around the world.

Mother Teresa, also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, MC, (born  26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997) was an Albanian-Indian.  Roman Catholic nun and missionary.  She was born in Skopje (modern Republic of Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet in the Ottoman Empire. After having lived in Macedonia for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.

Saint Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and was active in 133 countries. They run homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and mobile clinics; children’s and family counselling programmes; orphanages; and schools. Members must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, as well as a fourth vow, to give “wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor”.

Saint Teresa was the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. On 19 October 2003, she was beatified as “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta”. A second miracle was credited to her intercession by Pope Francis, in December 2015, paving the way for her to be recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She was canonised on 4 September 2016, a day before the 19th anniversary of her death.

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