Briefcase 1 Pope Francis declares Mother Teresa as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. In Mother Teresa's case the Catholic church is posthumously bestowing sainthood for the holy deeds she performed during her lifetime which also includes miracles. The path to sainthoodThe process begins at the diocese or the place where the individual lived and died, in Mother Teresa's case it is Kolkata. The process technically takes five years, but in Mother Teresa's case Pope John Paul, allowed the procedure to be launched two years after her death. This involved Brazilian Marcilio Andrino, who unexpectedly recovered from a severe brain infection in 2008 after his family prayed to Mother Teresa.

Source: India Today September 04, 2016 08:59 UTC