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       Pope Francis approves Mother Teresa for sainthood
       By: Kerry Date: December 18, 2015, 8:59 pm
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       From usatoday.com
  HTML http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/12/18/pope-francis-approves-mother-teresa-sainthood/77540352/:
       Mother Teresa will be made a Catholic saint after Pope Francis
       approved a second miracle needed for her canonization, a move
       welcomed by the archbishop of Kolkata, India, as “a real
       Christmas gift” from the pontiff.
       Francis took the step by signing a decree late Thursday
       declaring that the inexplicable 2008 recovery of a Brazilian man
       who suddenly woke from a coma caused by a viral brain infection
       was due to the intercession of the Albanian nun, who died at age
       87 in 1997.
       From NBC
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       The miracle needed for her canonization involved the curing of a
       man in Santos, Brazil, with a serious viral brain infection,
       according to Father Brian Kolodiejchiuk, a Missionaries of
       Charity Father who worked closely with Mother Teresa for 20
       years and spearheaded the cause of her sainthood.
       "The patient's wife continuously sought the intercession of the
       Blessed Mother Teresa for her husband," he said in a statement
       explaining the event.
       The unidentified man was in a coma and about to undergo an
       emergency operation when a neurosurgeon "returned to the
       operating room and found the patient inexplicably awake and
       without pain," the statement said.
       The patient made an immediate and full recovery. Despite tests
       showing that prolonged drug treatment had made him sterile, he
       went on to have two children, Kolodiejchiuk said.
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