The Vatican has announced that Pope Francis will canonize Mother Teresa in September 2016, according to Gerard O’Connell with America magazine.
Known for her zealous commitment to serving the poor, Teresa of Calcutta’s beatification process was one of the shortest in modern history, and was completed on Oct. 19, 2003, by Pope John Paul II —just six years after she died in 1997.
According to Gerard O’Connell, the plan to canonize Teresa became official after the Vatican medical board recognized an “inexplicable cure” of a Brazilian person.
Earlier this year, in May 2015, a Vatican spokesperson denied rumors that Teresa’s canonization had been set for September 2016, saying “the [sainthood] process of Mother Teresa is still ongoing” and only a “working hypothesis.”
The official canonization will likely be one of the largest gatherings in recent Vatican history.
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