What's Mother Teresa Got to Do with It?

Monica says she's proof of a miracle by the late nun; her husband begs to differ

Domestic bliss has fled the household of Seiku Murmu and his wife Monica Besra--and it's all Mother Teresa's fault. Monica is a celebrity in the small village of Dangram, 460 miles northeast of Calcutta, because she is the beneficiary of what many Catholics believe is the first posthumous miracle of Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. On Sept. 5, 1998, the first anniversary of the nun's death, Monica was suffering abdominal pain caused, she believed, by a tumor. But the purported tumor vanished when Monica applied a medallion with an image of the late Albanian nun to the site...

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