Pope Francis delivered the formula for the canonization of the Albanian-born nun -- known as the "saint of the gutters" -- before huge crowds of pilgrims gathered in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City on Sunday morning.
It usually takes decades to reach sainthood but her beatification process – the first step to sainthood – was rushed through by Pope John Paul II.
Since her death, two alleged miracles have been attributed to Mother Teresa, paving the way for her classification as a saint.
In 2002, the Vatican ruled that an Indian woman’s stomach tumour had been miraculously cured after she prayed to Mother Teresa, leading to her beatification - the first stage towards sainthood - in 2003.
Pope Francis attributed a second miracle to her after a man with a bacterial infection in his brain purportedly recovered after praying for Mother Teresa's prayer
Pope Francis praised Mother Teresa as the merciful saint who defended the lives of the unborn, sick and abandoned — and who shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created."
Speaking from the steps of St. Peter's Basilica, Pope Francis said Saint Teresa spent her life "bowing down before those who were spent, left to die on the side of the road, seeing in them their God-given dignity."
He added: "She made her voice heard before the powers of the world, so that they might recognize their guilt for the crimes of poverty they themselves created."
As if to emphasize the point, Pope Francis repeated the line "the crimes of poverty they themselves created."
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