Mother Theresa to be elavted to sainthood in 2016.

Mother Teresa performed a 'miracle' in Brazil and Pope Francis has recognized it. And she  is set to be canonised as a saint.

 The 'miracle'  where she cured  brain tumours.

Mother Theresa, was from Albenia but lived and worked in India and was celebrated for her work with the poor in India.

She will be elevated to sainthood in September 2016, according to the archbishop of Kolkata. 

Thomas D'Souza said the Vatican has recognised that Mother Teresa cured a man in Brazil who was suffering from multiple brain tumours in 2008. 

Archbishop o of Kolkata, D'Souza, said, 'I was informed by Rome that Pope Francis has recognised a second miracle to Mother Teresa.

A panel of experts, convened three days ago by the Congregation for the Causes of the Saints, attributed the miraculous healing to Mother Teresa.

Teresa, who was born to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje in Macedonia, was known across the world for her charity work. She died in 1997 at the age of 87.

Nicknamed the 'Saint of the Gutters', she dedicated her life to the poor, the sick and the dying in the slums of Kolkata, one of India's biggest cities, founding the Missionaries of Charity order of nuns there. She won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

She was beatified by then pope John Paul II in a fast-tracked process in 2003, in a ceremony attended by some 300,000 pilgrims. Beatification is a first step towards sainthood.

Her missionary order in Kolkata - formerly known as Calcutta - said it was 'thrilled' and grateful to the pope.

Sunita Kumar, a missionary spokeswoman who worked closely with Mother Teresa, said the late nun was an extraordinary woman who believed hard work was the best way to serve God.