ROME, Italy (WTHR) - Mother Teresa will be canonized this Sunday. Half a million people are expected to attend the two-hour mass led by Pope Francis.
WTHR's Anne Ryder traveled to Calcutta to meet with Mother Teresa in 1996, a year before she died. They talked about the potential for future sainthood.
"What people didn't understand about Mother Teresa during her lifetime and they do now is that this is a woman who radiated light it was like she pulled it down and shouted it out to the dark places. But she didn't feel that light that she emitted so often she felt many times and absence from God, but continued in this work of service and love anyway. So she believed that she would be a saint of the darkness. She came to believe her epiphany...was that she was meant to feel the same darkness as the people she served - the poorest of the poor," said Anne.