{"id":32999,"date":"2015-12-18T07:15:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/?p=32999"},"modified":"2015-12-18T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T13:16:28","slug":"blessed-teresa-of-kolkata-to-be-made-saint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/blessed-teresa-of-kolkata-to-be-made-saint\/","title":{"rendered":"Blessed Teresa of Kolkata to be made saint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Saint-Teresa.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33000 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Saint-Teresa.jpeg\" alt=\"Saint Teresa\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Saint-Teresa.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Saint-Teresa-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>It is reported today that His Holiness, Pope Francis authorized on Thursday the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree regarding a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Teresa (nee Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu). The Pope met privately with Cardinal Amato on December 17th. The relevant data was presented to the experts (bishops, theologians, doctors, etc) who help discern with the Pope the reputed sanctity of a candidate and the miracle said to be attributed to the person. The miracle at Blessed Teresa&#8217;s intercession was of a Brazilian man\u00a0cured of brain abscesses.<\/p>\n<p>No date has been set for the canonization.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa is likely the most recognizable Catholic in the world because of her work among the poor. Blessed Teresa was born in Albania on August 26, 1910 and died September 5, 1997. She was foundress of the Missionaries of Charity in 1950.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on the declaration of Blessed Teresa&#8217;s being declared a saint, Archbishop Thomas D\u2019Souza, the Archbishop of Calcutta [Kolkata] said,\u00a0\u201cHer entire life was spent doing works of mercy,\u201d he said. \u201cHer entire life was spent in service to the poor\u2026she was reflecting God\u2019s love here among the poorest of the poor, and so it comes as a very significant event in this Year of Mercy that the Holy Father has given to the Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa was beatified by Saint John Paul II on October 19, 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is reported today that His Holiness, Pope Francis authorized on Thursday the Congregation for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree regarding a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Teresa (nee Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu). The Pope met privately with Cardinal Amato on December 17th. The relevant data was presented to the experts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2015\/12\/blessed-teresa-of-kolkata-to-be-made-saint\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blessed Teresa of Kolkata to be made saint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1709],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33001,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32999\/revisions\/33001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}