Erin Brady |
With Mother Teresa being very recently anointed a saint by Pope Francis, The Oystercatcher looks at her life through the years, and the miracles she made happen.
Mother Teresa was born in 1910 to Albanian parents and was the youngest of five children. Up until the age of 18, Mother Teresa hadn’t even had thought about becoming a nun, but had instead listened intently to stories of missionary and service.
At just 19 years of age she joined the Irish order of Loreto, and in 1929 was sent to India where she taught a school under the name of Therese.
Many years later, in 1946, she travelled to Kolkata where she helped the poor, later setting up a hospice and a home for children who didn’t have anybody to care for them.
In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity which now has 4,500 nuns worldwide.
Sadly, in 1997, Mother Teresa passed away in West Bengal, India.
Five years after her death, John Paul II accepted Mother Teresa’s first miracle. In 2002, a cancerous tumour was cured after the woman who was diagnosed was given a locket with Mother Teresa’s picture. The woman claimed that a bright light emitted from the locket, which in turn cured the tumour. This led to her beatification in 2003.
Just recently, in December 2015, Pope Francis recognised her second miracle. a Brazilian man, in 2008, suffered from multiple brain tumours. His priest prayed that Mother Teresa would intervene with God’s plan. He did.
Once these two miracles had been recognised by the Pope, it was a clear path for Mother Teresa to be canonised as Saint Teresa of Calcutta on the 4th of September 2016.
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