The poor, the suffering and those who minister to them will be at the centre of celebrations leading up to the canonisation of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata at the Vatican.
The main event– the canonisation Mass – will begin at 10.30 am on September 4, the Vatican announced.
A “family feast” for the poor, a musical, Masses and prayer vigils will precede her canonisation, according to programmes published by the Vatican and by the Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded.
Known as the “saint of the gutters”, Mother Teresa was revered for ministering to the sick and the dying in some of the world’s poorest neighbourhoods. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 to an ethnic Albanian family in Skopje, in what is now part of Macedonia, Mother Teresa went to India as a Sister of Loreto in 1929.
