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Mother Teresa met the Pope in his visit to India
I met her when she went to my Medical Office

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Beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta

    “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus."  

    On December 21, 1948  she went for the first time to the slums. She visited families, washed the sores of some children, cared for an old man lying sick on the road and nursed a woman dying of hunger and TB. She started each day in communion with Jesus in the Eucharist and then went out, rosary in her hand, to find and serve Him in “the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for.” After some months, she was joined, one by one, by her former students. 

    On 7 October 1950 the new congregation of the Missionaries of Charity was officially established in the Archdiocese of Calcutta. By the early 1960s, Mother Teresa began to send her Sisters to other parts of India. It was soon followed by foundations in Rome and Tanzania and, eventually, on every continent. Starting in 1980 and continuing through the 1990s, Mother Teresa opened houses in almost all of the communist countries, including the former Soviet Union, Albania and Cuba.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, official site of the cause of canonization.
Mother Teresa: The Path of Love
Nobel Peace Prize 1979
Mother Teresa: Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Peace
In Memory of Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa: Angel of Mercy
Addresses of the Missionaries Of Charity all around the world
Audio and video clips of Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Madre Teresa de Calcuta, in Spanish and English
Books, Mother Teresa
Books, Mother Theresa
 

Canonization of
Saint Padre Pio
Vatican, June 16, 2002

Padre Pio (1887-1968) was born Francesco Forgione in Pietralcina, Italy. He is well known for his gifts as a confessor, for receiving the stigmata, and for working many miracles.

    In Rome, on June 16, 300,000 people attended the canonization of this humble Capuchin priest. His shrine at San Giovanni Rotondo is the third most visited Catholic holy place in the world, after St. Peter's in the Vatican and the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.

    "Padre Pio was a generous dispenser of divine mercy, making himself available to all through hospitality, spiritual direction and especially the administration of the sacrament of penance. The ministry of the confessional, which is one of the distinctive traits of his apostolate, attracted numerous crowds of faithful to the monastery of San Giovanni Rotondo. Even when that singular confessor treated pilgrims with apparent severity, the latter, becoming conscious of the gravity of sin and sincerely repentant, almost always came back for the peaceful embrace of sacramental forgiveness." John Paul II Homily

Homily of john Paul II
Saint Pio
Saint Pio, one hour Video
Saint Pio and Gemma, Video
Canonization by a Teenager
Books

Canonization of
Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer
Vatican, October 6, 2002

Canonization of Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer

Beautiful Pictures of the Canonization in the Vatican
 

    "The Founder of Opus Dei has recalled that the universality of the call to full union with Christ implies also that any human activity can become a place for meeting God. (…)

    He was a real master of Christian living and reached the heights of contemplation with continuous prayer, constant mortification, a daily effort to work carried out with exemplary docility to the motions of the Holy Spirit, with the aim of serving the Church as the Church wishes to be served."

    I met him in Salamanca, Spain, about 50 years ago.

Opus Dei
Saint Josemaria Escriva
San Josemaria Escriva
Catholic Online - Saints - St. Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer
Books
Writings of the founder of Opus Dei

Canonization of
Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoazin
Mexico City, Wednesday July 31, 2002
 

    Juan Diego was born in 1474 with the name "Cuauhtlatoatzin" ("the talking eagle") in Cuautlitlán, today part of Mexico City, Mexico. He was a gifted member of the Chichimeca people, one of the more culturally advanced groups living in the Anáhuac Valley

    "With deep joy I have come on pilgrimage to this Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Marian heart of Mexico and of America, to proclaim the holiness of Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, the simple, humble Indian who contemplated the sweet and serene face of Our Lady of Tepeyac, so dear to the people of Mexico." Pope John Pope II Homily.

    Saint Juan Diego Life and Gallery... Guadalupe History and Gallery
    The Stars in the Tilma
    Biography of Juan Diego
    Homily of John Paul II   
    San Juan Diego
    San Juan Diego
    Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe
    San Juan Diego
    La tilma de San Juan Diego
    Guadalupe, Picture Gallery

Canonization of
Saint Sister Faustina
Vatican and Krakow-Lagiewniki, April 30, 2000
 

    Sister Maria Faustina Kowalska was born  in Poland. When she was twenty years old, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy.

    On the 22nd of February, 1931, she had a vision of Jesus while she was in Plock, Poland. Jesus appeared to her and said, "paint an image according to the pattern you see with the signature: JESUS I TRUST IN YOU. I promise that the soul that will venerate this image will not perish. I also promise victory over (its) enemies already here on earth, especially at the hour of death. I Myself will defend it as My own glory" (Diary 47,48).

    He asked her to remind the world of His unfathomable Mercy and He taught her a very special devotion to the Divine Mercy based on trust in Him.

    She was honored by becoming the first saint of this millennium, giving thus great emphasis to the Divine Mercy Devotion. 

    As one of the great events of the Jubilee 2000, the Holy Father John Paul II, conducted the ceremony of the canonization of St Faustina, before a crowd of around 200000 Divine Mercy Pilgrims.

    We are encouraged to study and to practice the devotions of the Divine Mercy:

Canonization of Saint Faustina
Canonization of Sister Saint Faustina, Vision of Sister Faustina
Divine Mercy and Saint Faustina Gallery
http:Divine Marcy and Saint Faustina
Books

Canonization of
Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe
Vatican October 10, 1982

    Present at the canonization ceremony was Mr. Franciszek Gajownizek , the man for whom Fr. Maximilian offered his life in the concentration camp at Auschwitz.

    Maximilian was born in Poland. He joined the Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Conventual and his ordination to the priesthood followed in 1918. He founded the Militia of the Immaculata, a pious association in the service of the Blessed Virgin Mary, which came to publish a monthly magazine.

    For his writing in the magazine, the Nazis ultimately incarcerated Maximilian as prisoner 16670 at the Auschwitz concentration camp. After an escape from the camp in the summer of 1941, the Nazis arbitrarily condemned ten prisoners to die in a starvation bunker. Maximilian voluntarily offered his life in the place of a married prisoner with children. After weeks of harsh treatment, the Nazis finally martyred Maximilian, the last of the ten condemned, by lethal injection on August 14, 1941.

Homily of John Paul II
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
His Franciscan Mission
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Beatification of
Blessed Jacinta and Francisco of Fatima
Vatican, May 13, 2000

    The Church has given witness to the heroic sanctity of the Fatima children whom Our Lady promised to take to Heaven. In May 1989, the Holy Father proclaimed them venerable. They were beatified by the same Pope on May 13, 2000, to the great joy of the faithful, who now pray earnestly for their canonization.  

    The Declaration of Jacinta and Francisco Marto as Blessed represents the next to last stage in the Church's official recognition of their holiness. It also provides a further confirmation of the authenticity and value of the Message of Fátima.

    Remarkably, the principal visionary is still alive, Lucia dos Santos (Sr. Maria Lucia, OCD), able to rejoice in the elevation of her companions to the honor of the altar. The whole Church must rejoice, as well, that ones so young were able to live lives of heroic virtue. Parents, especially, should be emboldened to encourage holiness in the young, confident that it is possible for anyone, of whatever age, who follows the spiritual advice of Our Lady of Fátima
 

Saints Canonized by John Paul II
Blesseds Beatified by John Paul II

God's Endorsement of Fatima
Fatima-Third Secret
Blessed Jacinta Marto