Date set for canonization of Mother Theresa
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POPE Francis yesterday approved sainthood for Mother Teresa, the missionary nun who became a global if controversial symbol of compassion for her care of the sick and destitute.
The pontiff set September 4 as the date for her canonization.
The move comes 19 years after the death of the Albanian nun who worked mostly in India.
There was no immediate word from the Vatican on the location of the canonization ceremony, which is expected to take place in Rome with a thanksgiving ceremony held at a later date in the Indian city where the late nun is buried.
Teresa died at the age of 87 in 1997.
She was a controversial and divisive figure with critics branding her a religious imperialist whose fervent opposition to birth control and abortion ran contrary to the interests of the communities she claimed to serve.
Despite posthumously published letters revealing that she suffered crises of faith throughout her life, Teresa has been fast-tracked to canonization in unusually quick time.
She took the first step to sainthood in 2003 when she was beatified by Pope John Paul II following the recognition of a claim she had posthumously inspired the 1998 healing of a critically ill Bengali woman.
Last year she was credited by Vatican experts with inspiring the 2008 recovery of a Brazilian man suffering from multiple brain tumors, thus meeting the Church’s standard requirement for sainthood of having been involved in two “miracles.”
She was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1979.
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