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Mother Teresa was canonized, or officially recognized as a saint, on this day in history, Sept. 4, 2016.
She was given the title “Saint Teresa of Calcutta.”
“Mother Teresa, in all aspects of her life, was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making herself available for everyone through her welcome and defense of human life, those unborn and those abandoned and discarded,” said Pope Francis during her canonization Mass.
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Mother Teresa “was committed to defending life,” said Pope Francis, and “bowed down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity.”
“For Mother Teresa, mercy was the ‘salt’ which gave flavor to her work, it was the ‘light’ which shone in the darkness of the many who no longer had tears to shed for their poverty and suffering,” he said.
Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa on Sept. 4, 2016, giving her the new title of Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The Albanian nun died almost exactly 19 years before her canonization. (ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)
The canonization Mass occurred on the day before the 19th anniversary of her death on Sept. 5, 1997, at age 87.
Born Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in what is now known as Skjope, North Macedonia, Mother Teresa was of Albanian heritage, according to the website for the Nobel Peace Prize.
First feeling the call to religious life during her adolescence, she left home in September 1928 at age 18 and moved to Ireland, joining the Sisters of Loreto.
With the Sisters of Loreto, the teenage Agnes was given the religious name “Sister Mary Teresa,” in honor of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the Vatican’s website says.
A little over a year after her arrival in Ireland, she was sent to one of the Sisters of Loreto’s missions in India, a country that would become her adopted homeland.
In 1948, Mother Teresa left the Sisters of Loretto to begin working on founding a…
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