Mother Teresa Of Culcutta Is Declared A Saint By Pope Francis - PLUS Her Famous Quotes
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known in the Catholic church as the “saint of the gutters” during
her life, has been declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by
Pope Francis, Sunday 4th September, 2016
Mother
Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and
missionary. She was born Agnese Gonxha Bojaxhiu in August 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia.
The proclamation took place 19 years after her death. She died on September 5, 1997 in India.
Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed St. Peter’s Square at the
Vatican for a service to honour the nun, who worked among the
world’s neediest in the slums of the Indian city now called Kolkata.
A Nobel peace laureate, her legacy complements Pope Francis’s vision of a humble church that strives to serve the poor. Her canonization is a centerpiece of his Jubilee Year of Mercy.
Standing under a canvas hung from St. Peter’s Basilica showing the
late nun in her blue-hemmed white robes, Francis said Mother Teresa was a
“dispenser of divine mercy”. That St Teresa had defended the unborn, sick and abandoned, and
had shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves
created".
