Why Mother Theresa Will Be Made A Saint

by Fox News | Life

 

Mother Theresa, who died at the age of 87 in 1997 is to be declared a saint in 2016 after a second miracle, reportedly performed by her, was approved by Pope Francis.

In the first case, according to a report by Fox News, siting a valid Vatican source, an Indian woman's prayers to the nun was said to have rid her of an incurable tumor.

The second miracle involved a Brazilian man with a viral brain infection that resulted in multiple abscesses with triventricular hydrocephalus.

In December 2008 the patient was in a coma and dying and various treatments had been ineffective. The patient’s wife is said to have continuously sought the intercession of Mother Teresa for her husband.

On Dec. 9, while the patient was being wheeled into an operating room for emergency surgery, his wife went to church and along with the pastor begged Mother Teresa for the cure.

The Vatican statement added that 30 minutes after the patient arrived in the operating room, the doctor found the patient awake and without pain.

The patient then asked the doctor, "What am I doing here?"

The man, now completely healed, resumed his work as a mechanical engineer without any particular limitation.

This past September, the Vatican's medical commission voted unanimously that his cure was inexplicable in the light of current medical knowledge. On Tuesday, Pope Francis received the final approval for canonization of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints meeting.