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Detailed explanation-1: -Mother Teresa, revered for her work with the poor in India, has been proclaimed a saint by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican. Francis said St Teresa had defended the unborn, sick and abandoned, and had shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created".

Detailed explanation-2: -Mother Teresa was made a saint in Roman Catholic Church in September 2016. She was beatified in 2003 by the late Pope John Paul.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mother Teresa will be made a saint on September 4, Pope Francis announced on Tuesday, 19 years after the death of the Nobel Laureate who spent 45 years serving the poor and sick on the streets of Kolkata.

Detailed explanation-4: -Artemide Zatti and St. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini.