The Vatican has confirmed that it is to canonize missionary nun Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Kolkata) later this year. This comes 13 years after her beatification and 19 after her death.

On September the 4th, Mother Teresa will become a saint of the Catholic Church. Pope has signed today the decree of Mother Teresa’s beatification, event to be held in St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican.

Sanctification of Mother Teresa will be the main event of the Jubilee Year of Mercy in the Vatican, unlike the Indian Catholic Church asked that the ceremony to be held in their church.

September 4 is the eve of Teresa’s feast day, marking the anniversary of her death, on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87.

In December the pope approved a decision to attribute a second miracle – a precondition of canonization – to Mother Teresa for intervening to heal deadly illnesses. The process still reportedly needs a Mass to be formalized.

The Albanian nun won the 1979 Nobel peace prize for her work with the poor.