Pope Leo XIV has canonized Venezuela's "doctor of the poor" before tens of thousands of people.
The honor has special meaning for one woman on Long Island who once worked alongside Mother Teresa in Kolkata, and now is set to head to Rome for the ceremony.
Paralyzed former Rutgers football player Eric LeGrand delivered an inspirational message at the Patriots-Saints joint practice on Wednesday.
Francis officially cleared Mother Teresa for sainthood on Dec. 17, 2015, recognizing her "miraculous healing" of a Brazilian man, abscesses, the Vatican said.
Pope Francis has signed off on the miracle needed to make Mother Teresa a saint, giving the nun who cared for the poorest of the poor one of the Catholic Church's highest honors just two decades after her death.
Just days after the canonization of Junipero Serra by Pope Francis, the Carmel Mission Basilica was struck by vandals, knocking down Serra's statue and covering several others with paint.
