Pope Francis attributed a second miracle to Mother Teresa on Thursday, qualifying her for sainthood.

“We have been waiting for this event for many years,” the Archbishop of Calcutta His Exc. Mgr. Thomas D’Souza said Friday through the Vatican news agency. “Mother Teresa is a holy gift to Calcutta, for the Church and for the whole of India.”

“This joy could not have happened in a better moment, in the year of mercy,” he said. “Mother Teresa was saint of mercy and compassion who fully lived every moment of her life. She lived compassion towards every man, especially towards the sick, the lepers, the abandoned. Today she teaches us to put mercy at the center of the Church’s activity. We feel strongly inspired by her and her figure will accompany us throughout the Jubilee.”

D’Souza said he believes that Mother Teresa may be “the figure that unites, helps dialogue in India. She helped the faithful of all religions and all men, without any discrimination.”

Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in what is now Macedonia and died in 1997 in Calcutta. In 2003 she was beatified, the last step next to sainthood. She had been credited with her first miracle in 2002 when a woman in Indian with a tumor in her abdomen was healed after applying a locket holding Mother Teresa’s picture.

On Thursday, Pope Francis credited her with a second miracle – a requisite for sainthood – involving the healing of a Brazilian man with multiple brain tumors.

The date for the canonization ceremony hasn’t been announced.