VATICAN CITY-The Pope during consistory of cardinals on Mar 5 announced Sept 4 as the date for Mother Teresa’s canonisation, the media reported. The Pope had cleared the way in Dec for sainthood for the Nobel peace laureate, who died in 1997 aged 87. The Albania-born nun and missionary was by far the most high-profile of the five candidates for sainthood considered by the Vatican panel. It is not clear whether the Pope...
will bow to appeals from the Catholic church in India and travel to Calcutta for the ceremony or, as Vatican sources say is more likely, preside over one in Rome. She died on Sept 5, 1997, and was beatified just six years later by Pope John Paul II on Oct 19, 2003. More than 300,000 pilgrims went to Rome in 2003 for Teresa’s beatification — the first step towards sainthood. (IANS)
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