--- title: Mother Teresa Will Be Made a Saint description: Mother Teresa will be made a saint, the Vatican confirmed Friday, after decreeing that she had performed a second miracle. canonical: https://time.com/4154671/mother-teresa-saint/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-18T14:41:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:29:30.846Z article:section: World og:title: Mother Teresa Will Be Made a Saint og:description: Pope Francis recognized a second miracle she performed og:url: https://time.com/4154671/mother-teresa-saint/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03c285a19b9ce669/698875fd0a4a2284689c7936/mother-teresa-sainthood-francis.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: mother teresa sainthood pope francis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Mother Teresa Will Be Made a Saint twitter:description: Pope Francis recognized a second miracle she performed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03c285a19b9ce669/698875fd0a4a2284689c7936/mother-teresa-sainthood-francis.jpeg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Mother Teresa Will Be Made a Saint  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 18, 2015 2:41 PM CUT  Mother Teresa. Patna India Mother Teresa. Patna IndiaReligious Images—Getty Images/Universal Images Group  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Dec 18, 2015 2:41 PM CUT Mother Teresa will be made a saint, the Vatican confirmed Friday, after Pope Francis approved of the second miracle required for her canonization. The Vatican said the Pontiff signed off on the second miracle on Thursday. Mother Teresa [was beatified in 2003](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/mother-teresa-be-sainted-after-2nd-miracle-declared-vatican-n482281 "undefined") as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta for healing a woman’s tumor through divine intervention, but two miracles are required for sainthood. The second miracle, which Pope Francis decreed Thursday, involved curing a man of a viral brain infection. Mother Teresa, who died in 1997 at age 87, was a beloved missionary whose work led to numerous awards and honors, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. **MORE** [Read TIME’s 1975 cover story about Mother Teresa](http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,945463,00.html "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4154671/mother-teresa-saint/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4154671/mother-teresa-saint/"},"headline":"Mother Teresa Will Be Made a Saint","datePublished":"2015-12-18T14:41:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:29:30.846Z","description":"Pope Francis recognized a second miracle she performed","url":"https://time.com/4154671/mother-teresa-saint/","keywords":["faith","Religion"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03c285a19b9ce669/698875fd0a4a2284689c7936/mother-teresa-sainthood-francis.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt03c285a19b9ce669/698875fd0a4a2284689c7936/mother-teresa-sainthood-francis.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"mother teresa sainthood pope francis","caption":"mother teresa sainthood pope francis","creditText":"Religious Images—Getty Images/Universal Images Group","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/faith/","name":"faith"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4154671/mother-teresa-saint/","name":"Mother Teresa Will Be Made a Saint"}}]}] ```