Mother Teresa Made A Saint

Mother Teresa was made a saint by Pope Francis today Sunday 4th September 2016.

Born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu on August 26th 1910.

Mother Teresa went to India in 1929 as a sister of the Loreto order.

In 1946, she received what she described as a "call within a call" to found a new order dedicated to caring for the most unloved and unwanted, the "poorest of the poor."

In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity, which went onto become a global order of nuns.

She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Mother Teresa died in 1997 after a lifetime spent caring for hundreds of thousands of destitute and homeless poor in Kolkata, for which she came to be called the "Saint of the gutters."

Pope Francis said St Teresa had defended the unborn, sick and abandoned, and had shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created".

Tens of thousands of pilgrims attended the canonisation in St Peter's Square.