{"id":1808,"date":"2007-09-06T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2007\/09\/nine-years-after-a-miracle-woman-is-angry-at-mother-teresas-nuns.html"},"modified":"2007-09-06T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:40:00","slug":"nine-years-after-a-miracle-woman-is-angry-at-mother-teresas-nuns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2007\/09\/nine-years-after-a-miracle-woman-is-angry-at-mother-teresas-nuns.html","title":{"rendered":"Nine years after a miracle, woman is angry at Mother Teresa’s nuns"},"content":{"rendered":"

The timing of this, I’m sure, isn’t coincidental, but news has trickled out from AFP about the woman who received the first miracle attributed to the intercession of Mother Teresa — and the news isn’t good<\/a>: <\/p>\n

A woman whose claimed miracle cure from cancer led to Mother Teresa being thrust towards sainthood has accused Catholic nuns of abandoning her to a life of misery. <\/p>\n

The angry comments came as the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by the Albanian-born nun in Kolkata in 1950, yesterday marked the 10th anniversary of Mother Teresa\u2019s death. <\/p>\n

<\/a>\u201cI will not go to any church,\u201d 40-year-old Monica Besra said, squatting on the floor of her thatched, mud house in Danogram village, 500km from Kolkata, where Mother Teresa worked. <\/p>\n

\u201cI will remember Mother Teresa on her death anniversary at home with my children and husband,\u201d she added. <\/p>\n

It was Besra\u2019s alleged miracle cure from a \u201clumpy\u201d tumour that led to the Vatican clearing the way for Mother Teresa\u2019s beatification in October 2003. <\/p>\n

Besra had been diagnosed with a life-threatening tumour by a doctor and was then taken to a hospice run by the Missionaries of Charity. <\/p>\n

On September 5, 1998, exactly a year after Mother Teresa\u2019s death, nuns placed a tiny aluminium medallion that had been blessed by Mother Teresa on Besra\u2019s stomach and prayed for her. <\/p>\n

The next day, she reported herself cured. The Vatican investigation into the miracle began in November 1999 and was completed in August 2001. <\/p>\n

Usually, the journey from death to beatification to sainthood takes decades if not centuries in the Catholic Church, which has 1.1bn followers worldwide. <\/p>\n

\u201cMy hut was frequented by nuns of the Missionaries of Charity before the beatification of Mother Teresa,\u201d Besra said. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey made of lot of promises to me and assured me of financial help for my livelihood and my children\u2019s education,\u201d she claimed, adding that she was also escorted to the Vatican for the beatification ceremony. <\/p>\n

\u201cAfter that, they forgot me,\u201d said Besra, tears welling up in her eyes. With the small piece of family land mortgaged to a village money lender years ago, Besra said she is struggling to survive. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article goes on to quote the Missionaries of Charity, who insist they are trying to help the woman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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