I can't get over how the Vatican today, in modern times, is still in the business of verifying "miracles" needed for sainthood.
This whole institution of "sainthood" is a scam and a relic of pre-Enlightenment thinking.
Mother Teresa died in 1997. Why we still traffic in the myth of sainthood in the 21st century is beyond me, but, at any rate, two miracles are required. One for beatification (this is recognition by the Catholic Church that the dead person ascended to heaven and that the dead person can "intercede" on behalf of individuals who pray in his or her name) and a second "miracle" is required to proceed to canonization.
Let's let wikipedia descibe the first "miracle":
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Following Mother Teresa's death in 1997, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the third step towards possible canonization. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Mother Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. Critics including some of Besra's medical staff and, initially, Besra's husband insisted that conventional medical treatment eradicated the tumor. Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who told the New York Times he had treated Besra, said that the cyst was not cancer at all, but a cyst caused by tuberculosis. He insisted, "It was not a miracle…. She took medicines for nine months to one year."
An opposing perspective of the claim is that Monica's medical records contain sonograms, prescriptions, and physicians' notes that could conceivably prove whether the cure was a miracle or not. Monica has claimed Sister Betta of the Missionaries of Charity is holding them. The publication has received a "no comments" statement from Sister Betta. The officials at the Balurghat Hospital where Monica was seeking medical treatment are claiming that they are being pressured by the Catholic order to declare the cure as a miracle.
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So, we have an Indian woman, Monica Besra, who claims that after Mother Teresa's death a locket with Mother Teresa's picture in it was pressed against her abdominal tumor. The members of the Missionaries of Charity prayed for Mother Teresa to intercede, and Monica woke up to find the tumor gone.
"The cyst was not cancer at all, but a cyst caused by tuberculosis"... and Monica had been under doctor supervision and receiving treatment and medications "for nine months to one year."
This last from an Indian website:
According to the Vatican, Monica Besra’s ovarian tumor was cured by the powers of Teresa’s picture, placed on her abdomen. But the medical records prove that it was sheer conventional medical treatment that rescued her life. “In the 21st century how can you talk about miracle healing?” says West Bengal health minister Suyrya Kanta Nishra. The miracle documentation claims that several doctors have certified that the healing was “scientifically inexplicable”, but not a single of these anonymous witnesses could so far be traced.