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Pope Francis declares Mother Theresa a saint at Vatican ceremony
Pope Francis on Sunday declared Mother Theresa a saint for her work to humanity at a ceremony at the Vatican.
He performed the ceremony to canonise the nun, at a mass besieged by thousands of pilgrims at the St Peter’s Square.
The Pope attributed two miraculous cures of the sick after her death in 1997 to her intercession, and she is highly revered for her work with the poor in India.
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At the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, an order she founded, a special Mass was celebrated in her honour.
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