Mother Teresa a step away from sainthood

Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to helping the poor, cleared the first hurdle to sainthood today when Vatican declared her to possess ...

Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to helping the poor, cleared the first hurdle to sainthood today when Vatican declared her to possess ‘‘heroic virtues’’.

The declaration means the diminutive Albanian-born woman could be beatified, the step before sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church, as early as next year.

A Vatican committee will now meet on October 1 to formally confirm a miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, who died in 1997. Advocates for her beatification say a woman suffering from a tumour was inexplicably cured after praying to the nun. If the Vatican Commission recognises the miracle, a ceremony to beatify her could be held next year, Vatican sources said.

A second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, who spent much of her life helping the world’s most destitute people, would be needed after the beatification in order for her to be declared a saint.

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