Mother Teresa receives sainthood

Pope Francis presided over the canonization of the nun who served the poorest in Kolkata, India.

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Sun., Sept. 4, 2016

A tourist walks past a poster of Mother Teresa, displayed on a memorial house dedicated to her in Skopje, Macedonia, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Mother Teresa, who was born as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje 1910, was proclaimed a saint in a canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis earlier Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Vatican.

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A Missionaries of Charity nun's shadow is cast on a wall ahead of a thanks giving mass upon the sainthood on Mother Teresa at Nirmal Hriday, a destitute home run by them in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created.

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Inmates watch guests arrive for a thanks giving mass upon the sainthood on Mother Teresa at Nirmal Hriday, a destitute home run by the Missionaries of Charity in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created.

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Indian priests conduct a thanks giving mass upon the sainthood on Mother Teresa at Nirmal Hriday, a destitute home run by the Missionaries of Charity in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016.

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Missionaries of Charity sisters conduct a thanks giving mass upon the sainthood on Mother Teresa at Nirmal Hriday, a destitute home run by them in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created.

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A missionary participates in a thanks giving mass upon the sainthood on Mother Teresa at Nirmal Hriday, a destitute home run by the Missionaries of Charity in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created.

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A girl plays near a memorial plaque at Mother Teresa Memorial House in Skopje, Macedonia, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Mother Teresa, who was born as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje 1910, was proclaimed a saint in a canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis earlier Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Vatican.

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A woman takes a picture of the sculpture of Mother Teresa in Skopje, Macedonia, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Mother Teresa, who was born as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje 1910, was proclaimed a saint in a canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis earlier Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Vatican.

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A boy looks at a portrait of Mother Teresa on a stained glass window at Mother Teresa Memorial House in Skopje, Macedonia, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Mother Teresa, who was born as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje 1910, was proclaimed a saint in a canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis earlier Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Vatican.

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A nun from Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity order sets candles during an Eucharistic Liturgy in honor of Mother Teresa's canonization, in a chapel of Mother Teresa Memorial House in Skopje, Macedonia, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Mother Teresa, who was born in Skopje 1910, was proclaimed a saint in a canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis earlier Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Vatican.

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A nun from Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity order prays during an Eucharistic Liturgy in honor of Mother Teresa's canonization, in a chapel of Mother Teresa Memorial House in Skopje, Macedonia, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Mother Teresa, who was born in Skopje 1910, was proclaimed a saint in a canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis earlier Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Vatican.

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Nuns from Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity order in blue-trimmed saris pray during an Eucharistic Liturgy in honor of Mother Teresa's canonization, in a chapel of Mother Teresa Memorial House in Skopje, Macedonia, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Mother Teresa, who was born in Skopje 1910, was proclaimed a saint in a canonization ceremony led by Pope Francis earlier Sunday in St. Peter's Square in Vatican.

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Missionaries of Charity sisters with other Catholics join in a thanks giving mass at a Church in Kolkata, India, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created."

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Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity group founded by Mother Teresa is illuminated with a huge portrait of her displayed in Kolkata, India, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2016. Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the "crimes of poverty they themselves created."

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Pope Francis is driven through the crowd in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during a jubilee audience for workers and volunteers of mercy, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016. The square hosts a ceremony Sunday expected to draw hundreds of thousands of admirers of Mother Teresa, a nun who before her death in 1997, cared for the destitute who were dying in the streets of India.

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