What made Mother Teresa blessed?

Answer 1

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After Mother Teresa died, the Catholic Church began the process of beatification, which requires the Church to recognise a miracle as having occured because of her intercession. In 2002, the Vatican recognised as a miracle the healing of a tumour in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, after the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. With the pope's approval of her beatification, she became the

Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumour. Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who had treated Besra, said that the cyst was not cancer at all but a cyst caused by tuberculosis. He said, "It was not a miracle.... She took medicines for nine months to one year." According to Besra's husband, "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle." Although Besra's cure now seems not to have been the outcome of a miracle, her beatification stands.

Answer 2

As of February 2015 a second miracle has not been proven. Her first miracle was to cause a cure to take place in an Indian woman named Monica Besra. The woman had been suffering from a huge tumor for years and medicines had failed to stop its growth or remove it. One evening the picture of Mother Teresa was placed on her abdomen while all the sisters in the Mother House prayed for a cure. The very next day the tumor had vanished without a trace.

Answer 3

After Mother Teresa died, the Catholic Church began the process of beatification, which requires the Church to recognise a miracle as having occurred because of her intercession. In 2002, the Vatican recognised as a miracle the healing of a tumour in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, after the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. With the pope's approval of her beatification, she became the Blessed.
As to the supposed miracle, Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumour. Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who had treated Besra, said that the cyst was not cancer at all but a cyst caused by tuberculosis. He said, "It was not a miracle.... She took medicines for nine months to one year." According to Besra's husband, "My wife was cured by the doctors and not by any miracle." Although Besra's cure now seems not to have been the outcome of a miracle, her beatification stands.