Mother Teresa was canonized as Saint Teresa after two independent healing miracles were attributed to her after her death. The first alleged miracle occurred in 1964 when a five-year-old girl in India named Lucia de Biasi claimed to be in contact with Teresa's spirit and that she was providing information about the children who had died in the community where they lived. Further investigations confirmed that all of the children had indeed died; however, it was also discovered that several of them had been poisoned by their parents, possibly as a way to get rid of them. In another case reported by Mother Teresas biographer John Allen Paul II declared two other women saints: Katherine Drexel and Maria Makoveych. Like Teresa, both women were born into wealthy families but became religious rebels who lived on the streets before being sent to work with lepers in India. They returned to the West after several years and founded orders for Catholic nuns and priests who worked with impoverished people. Mother Teresa said of Katherine Drexel that she was "a star" who had found her own way through Christ's love. Maria Makoveych was born in Russia but moved with her family to Canada as a child.