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Mamata Banerjee to attend Mother Teresa's canonisation in Vatican

| | May 23, 2016, at 03:50 am
Kolkata, May 22 (IBNS): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said she will attend the canonisation of Mother Teresa in Vatican in September.

Banerjee said she accepted Mother's Catholic congregation Missionaries of Charity Superior General Sister Prema's invitation to attend the event.

Banerjee tweeted: "I have accepted Sr Prema's invitation to be present at the canonisation of blessed Mother Teresa in Rome on 4 Sep."

Pope Francis, at a meeting of the Cardinals, in March said Mother Teresa of Kolkata will be made a saint of the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony on Sept 4.

In December, Pope Francis had approved a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa’s intercession, the final step to make her a saint.

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