Mother Teresa: "Angel of Mercy"

Capitol recognition
Mother Teresa receives the US Congressional Gold Medal from Senator Strom
Thurmond (2nd-R) at Capitol Hill in Washington on June 5, 1997.

The process leading up to Mother Teresa's beatification has been the shortest in modern history. In 1999, less than two years after her death, Pope John Paul waived the normal five-year waiting period and allowed the immediate opening of her canonization cause.