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Will Kidney Stone Make Teresa a Saint?

Priest reports miracle on 10th anniversary of her death

By Asta Hostetter,  Newser User

Posted Oct 7, 2007 12:49 PM CDT

(Newser) – The disappearance of a half-inch-long kidney stone in the uterer of an Indian priest may be the second miracle required for Mother Teresa to become a saint. On the 10th anniversary of her death last month, the priest, who was scheduled for surgery to remove the stone the next day, celebrated mass and asked parishioners to pray to her on his behalf. The next day, x-rays revealed the stone had vanished. 

While the church's early saints tended to be martyrs, the modern requirement—along with establishment of "heroic virtue"—is at least two posthumous miracles. And while the disappearance of a kidney stone may seem relatively mundane, it has worked for at least one other saint—St. Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvao. A local archbishop told Asianews the priest's recovery “is above and beyond scientific and human explanation.”

Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa   (Archive Photos)
Missionaries of Charity nuns are seen near a portrait of Mother Teresa, the founder of the order, on her 10th death anniversary which was observed as  'Happy Feast Day' in Calcutta, India, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. The destitute and the diseased still gather outside Mother Teresa's clinics in this sprawling...
Missionaries of Charity nuns are seen near a portrait of Mother Teresa, the founder of the order, on her 10th death anniversary which was observed as 'Happy Feast Day' in Calcutta, India, Wednesday,...   (Associated Press)
(FILES) This file photO taken 12 December 1979 shows Mother Teresa...
(FILES) This file photO taken 12 December 1979 shows Mother Teresa...   (Getty Images (by Event))
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