AKIPRESS.COM - Mother Teresa will be cleared to become a saint after a Vatican panel recognizes a second miracle attributed to the late nun famed for her work with the poor of Kolkata, Capital News reports.

The committee of senior clerics that approves elevations to sainthood is to meet with the long-awaited green light seen as a formality, less than two decades after her death.

Pope Francis will sign a decree approving the canonization of the 1979 Nobel peace prize winner and announce a date and venue for it to happen.

The canonization is widely expected to take place on September 4, the eve of the anniversary of her 1997 death, for which a celebration of her memory had already been scheduled as part of the Church’s Jubilee Year of Mercy.

Known across the world, Teresa was awarded the Nobel for her work with the poor, sick, old and lonely in the teeming slums of Kolkata, previously known as Calcutta.

She is revered by many Catholics but has also been attacked as a “religious imperialist” who attempted to foist her beliefs on an impoverished community in which they had no indigenous roots.

Last year, she was credited by Vatican experts with inspiring the 2008 recovery of a Brazilian man suffering from multiple brain tumors, thus meeting the Church’s standard requirement for sainthood of having been involved in two certifiable miracles.

She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003 following a fast-track process involving the recognition of a claim she had posthumously inspired the 1998 healing of a Bengali tribal women.