What determines the name of a city in Saint's name?

[martinezc5]

At my office today we were talking about the canonization of Mother Teresa. Isn’t Mother from Macedonia? Why would her name be Saint Teresa of Calcutta. Is the name of the city/state determined by where they died? Where they’re born? Whee they worked?

God bless and thanks.

 

[Fr.Charles_Grondin]

Is it the city they were born in, worked in, or died in? The answer is: yes.

The city a saint is known as “St. so-and-so of X” is based on the city where they were renown. Usually that would be the city the saint did the majority of his/her ministry. However there is no hard and fast rule.