Tens of thousands of the faithful filled St. Peter’s square during the canonization.
Sunday, September 4, at a festive mass in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican, Pope Francis canonized mother Teresa of Calcutta.
According to BBC Ukraine, the ceremony in St. Peter’s square in Rome was headed by Pope Francis, who declared mother Teresa a Saint.
The missionary, who received the Nobel peace prize, was born into a family of Albanians in the area that is now the territory of Macedonia. Most of my life nun who lived in India, where he helped the needy.
Mother Teresa, who received the Nobel peace prize for helping the poor in the slums of the Indian city of Calcutta, died in 1997. Recall that in 2003, she was beatified – the first step needed for the canonization.
Then Pope John Paul II recognized her first “miracle”. According to him, the healing of Indian women from a tumor in the abdomen was the result of “divine intervention” after praying with mother Teresa.
At the same time, the Indian rationalists such an opinion then appealed. While criticism of the nuns accused her friendship with dictators.
