Square: Mother Teresa and Blue-and-White Garland

square: It also a modern sin, a sin of today," Francis told thousands of lay volunteers in St, according to Metro News. Peter Square at a special gathering to stress the need for more mercy and caring in the world. Choosing "to not see hunger, disease, exploited persons, this is a grave sin. Francis will lead a Sunday morning canonization ceremony in the square which is expected to draw huge crowds of faithful and other admirers of Mother Teresa, who founded an order of nuns devoted like her to giving tenderness and assistance to the poor who were sick and dying in the streets of Kolkata. Francis greeted a group of these nuns as he was driven through the square in his popemobile, and one of the nuns put a blue-and-white garland around his neck."Tomorrow, we'll have the joy of seeing Mother Teresa proclaimed a saint," he said. "She deserves it!"In his speech to the volunteers, including some who helped rescue survivors of the Aug. 24 earthquake in central Italy, he decried those who "turn the other way not to see the many forms of poverty that begs out for mercy."Francis hailed volunteers as "artisans of mercy," whose hands, voices, closeness and caresses help people who suffer feel loved. Cheering the pontiff in Saturday crowd were many nuns from her Missionaries of Charity order, each wearing the characteristic white sari trimmed in blue that makes them easily identifiable worldwide where they care for the needy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.