Pope Francis approves canonization, Mother is now Saint Teresa

The canonisation is expected to take place on September 4, 2016 in Rome.

Known throughout the world, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize for her life work with the poor, sick, elderly and alone in the slums of Calcutta, now known as Kolkata.

Vatican City:  Pope Francis officially approved on Tuesday the sainthood for Mother Teresa and set September 4, as the date of her canonisation.

The decision comes 19 years after the death of the missionary nun who devoted most of her adult working with the poor in Kolkata, India.

There was no immediate information about the location Vatican of the canonisation ceremony, expected to take place in Rome with a thanksgiving ceremony held at a later date in the Indian city where Mother Teresa is buried.

The Albanian nun, 87 years old when he died in 1997, was revered by many Catholics and won the Nobel Peace Prize 1979 for her work with the poor.

But it was also a controversial, with critics branding a religious imperialist whose fervent opposition to contraception and abortion was against the interests of communities, she claimed to serve.

Mother Teresa took the first step toward sainthood in 2003, when she was beatified by Pope John Paul II after a fast-track process that involves the recognition of a claim she had posthumously inspired the healing of a woman of a Bengali tribe critically ill-1998.

Last year was accredited by Vatican experts with inspiring recovery from a Brazilian who suffers from multiple brain tumors 2008, therefore, compliance with standard requirement of the Church's holiness participated in two certifiable miracles.