Woman 'cured' by Mother Teresa lives in poverty

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DANOGRAM, India (AFP) — An Indian woman whose claimed miracle cure from cancer led to Mother Teresa being thrust toward sainthood has accused Catholic nuns of abandoning her to a life of misery.

The angry comments came as the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by the Albanian-born nun in the eastern Indian metropolis of Kolkata in 1950, prepared to mark Wednesday's 10th anniversary of the heroine's death.

"I will not go to any church," 40-year-old Manica Besra told AFP, squatting on the floor of her thatched and mud house in Danogram village, 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the eastern city of Kolkata, where Mother Teresa worked.

"I will remember Mother Teresa on her death anniversary at home with my children and husband," she added.

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