Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the Nobel Prize laureate who dedicated her life to helping the poorest of the poor, is likely to be canonized as catholic saint next year after the Vatican's announcement on Friday that a second miracle is approved to be attributed to her.
According to a report by The Independent, the Catholic Bishops conference said that Mother Teresa is expected to be proclaimed as new catholic saint in September after Pope Francis have cleared the way for her sainthood. This comes after the pontiff has approved a decree recognizing a second miracle attributed to her intercession with God.
The miracle, as reported by NBC News, involved curing a man in Santos, Brazil who had several brain tumors and infection.
"The patient's wife continuously sought the intercession of the Blessed Mother Teresa for her husband," Father Brian Kolodiejchiuk, a Missionaries of Charity Father who worked closely with Mother Teresa said in a statement explaining the event.
The statement said that the unidentified man was in coma and was about to undergo an emergency operation when a neurosurgeon found him to be "inexplicably awake and without pain." The man then made an immediate and full recovery leaving doctors unable to explain how the recovery happened.
Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 at the age of 87, was beatified, or proclaimed Blessed, in 2003 by the late Pope John Paul II for healing an Indian woman's tumor through divine intervention. The beatification was the last step required before she can finally be declared a catholic saint by the Vatican.
Mother Teresa was born to Albanian parents as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia in 1910. She has lived most of her life in India, where she died and was buried.
She founded Missionaries of Charity, a religious order aimed to help the poor on the streets in Calcutta, the capital city of the Indian state of West Bengal. Today, Missionaries of Charity can now be found in over 100 countries.
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, the US Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985 and, in 1993, she was awarded the Freedom of Dublin.
