AKIPRESS.COM - Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to helping India's poor, will be made a saint in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said Friday.

She will likely be canonized in September to coincide with the 19th anniversary of her death and Pope Francis' Holy Year of Mercy, according to an Italian Catholic newspaper report.

Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, she died on Sept. 5, 1997, aged 87.

Francis created six new saints in 2014 — two Indians and four Italians — praising their "creative" commitment to helping the poor.

The miracle needed for her canonization concerned the cure of a Brazilian man with a brain illness, according to a report in Avennire, the newspaper of the Italian bishops' conference.