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Pope Declares Mother Teresa SAINT Before A Mammoth Crowd At Vatican
Pope Declares Mother Teresa SAINT: Catholic nun, Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the “saint of the gutters,” has been declared a saint in a canonization Mass held by Pope Francis in the Vatican on Sunday morning.
Pope Declares Mother Teresa SAINT
During the canonization of the Albanian-born nun – who devoted her life to helping India’s poor – the Pope said St Teresa had defended the unborn, sick and abandoned, and had shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created”, before huge crowds of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City.
Speaking in Latin, Francis said that “after due deliberation and frequent prayer for divine assistance, and having sought the counsel of many of our brother bishops, we declare and define Blessed Teresa of Kolkata to be a saint, and we enroll 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.”
A huge portrait of Mother Teresa, whom the church credits with having performed two miraculous cures of the sick, hung from St. Peter’s Basilica during the colorful ceremony.
The canonization came 19 years after her death.
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