VATICAN CITY, March 15 (UPI) -- A ceremony elevating Mother Teresa to sainthood is scheduled for Sept. 4, the Vatican announced Tuesday.
A celebrated and visible symbol of Christian charity until her death in 1997, Mother Teresa moved from present-day Macedonia to India in 1929 and founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. There, she ministered to the sick and dying in some of the poorest areas of the country. After her death, Pope John Paul II waived the usual five-year waiting period and began the long process of research and investigation leading to canonization.