Mother Teresa to be made a saint after Pope approves second miracle

Mother Teresa will be made a saint next year after the Pope approved her second miracle. The Nobel laureate, who devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor of Kolkata, was said to have helped a dying patient with a viral brain infection make an unexplained recovery. She was beatified in 2003 in the first step to sainthood and Pope Francis can now complete the process. Thomas D'Souza, the Archbishop of Kolkata, said: “We are very happy and overjoyed with this news, the city of Kolkata has been waiting for this day.”

We thank God of the great gift he bestowed on us with Mother Teresa.

Thomas D'Souza, the Archbishop of Kolkata

Her second miracle involved a Brazilian who was in a coma with a brain infection which had caused multiple abscesses and hydrocephalus. He was wheeled into the operating theatre for emergency surgery at 9 December, 2008, as his wife went to her church and begged Mother Teresa to cure him. The neurosurgeon found the patient in the waiting room inexplicably awake, without pain and asking: “What I am doing here?” He made a full recovery and returned to work, without any complications. Mother Teresa, criticised by some for her unyielding views on abortion and divorce, died in 1997 at the age of 87.

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