Mother Teresa's canonization date is officially set, just 19 years after her death

September 4th marks the Blessed Mother's canonization date

The date of Mother Teresa's canonization has finally been announced. Pope Francis is set to make the Blessed Mother a saint on September 4.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Just 19 years after her death on September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa will become the saint many already feel she is.

Mother Teresa was beatified in 2003 by Pope John Paul II after having her first miracle attributed to her; she answered a sick Indian woman's prayers to cure her brain tumor.

The Catholic Church requires the person in question to officially have two miracles in their name before becoming a saint. In December 2015, Francis publicly cleared Mother Teresa for sainthood after recognizing the second miracle in her name; a Brazilian man with brain abscesses experienced a "miraculous healing."

Born on August 26, 1910, as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa became known for her love of the poor and the abandoned. She has shown unconditional love to many in need through her dedication and hard work to their cause.

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat," reads one of Mother Teresa's famed quotes.

At the age of 17, Mother Teresa joined the Sisters of Loretto but later left after feeling she called by God to leave and live with the poor. She began her mission working in the slums, caring for the ill and teaching the poor children.

In 1950, "the Missionaries of Charity were born as a congregation of the Diocese of Calcutta," according to Catholic News Agency. Since the beginning of her order, more than 130 houses have been created to care for the needy all over the world.

Mother Teresa was presented with the Noble Peace Prize in 1979 and now in 2016, she will enter sainthood.

The location for her canonization ceremony has not officially been named, but it is expected to take place in Rome with a later Thanksgiving ceremony in the Indian city where she is buried.

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