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The Congregation for the Causes of the Saints recognised at its meeting on Tuesday the healing of an Indian woman's abdominal tumour as a miracle attributable to the Indian nun of Albanian origin.
Pope John Paul II is expected to sign the decree recognising the miracle at a meeting of the congregation in December and announce a date, probably in spring next year, to formally recognise Mother Teresa as a saint.
The journey to sainthood of Mother Teresa, who was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, will thus be the shortest in history. The Nobel Peace laureate died in September 1997 in Calcutta at the age of 87.
She set up the Order of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in 1950.
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