On The Occasion Of Saint Teresa's Canonisation, Here're 10 Photos To Celebrate Her Blessed Life
This date will be written down in history as Mother Teresa, the Nobel Peace Prize- winning nun got declared as Saint Teresa of Calcutta by Pope Francis in the Vatican¡¯s St. Peter¡¯s Square. The woman who created a legacy by helping the needy and the poor, attained Sainthood amid hundreds of thousands of people.
Born in 1910 in what is now Skopje, Macedonia, Anjez? Gonxhe Bojaxhiu went on to become one of perhaps the most controversial figures in the church.
At the age of 19, she traveled to India, where she made her first vows as a nun and became known as Mother Teresa. An epiphany in 1946 led her to devote her life to helping the poor.
On the occasion of her canonisation, here are 10 photos commemorating her life:
#1 That iconic moment when Pope John Paul II visited the Casa del Cuore Puro, Mother Teresa's home for the destitute and dying in Kolkatta in 1986.?
Reuters
#2 One dynamic lady met the other - Princess Diana met Mother Teresa for the first time in Rome in the year 1992 where they talked about her Missionary Sisters of Charity.
Reuters
#3 Mother Teresa visited St. Lazarus Leprosy Village's church in Korea in the year 1985.
Reuters
#4 A crowd in Canada gathered to get a glimpse of Mother Teresa. Here she is seen touching the protective window towards the face of a young child who was among the hundreds who came to greet her in 1986.
Reuters
#5 Mother Teresa blessing?one week-old Dejen Abreha?in the neo-natal intensive care unit at Saint Margaret's Center for Women and Infants, in Boston.
Reuters
#6 Nobel Peace Laureate Mother Teresa talking to a Bangladeshi man after she inaugurated an old age home at Bishia Kuribari village 31 miles from Dhaka in 1995.
Reuters
#7 First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton met Mother Teresa at the opening of the Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children in Washington DC in 1995.
Reuters
#8 Mother Teresa helping a villager in Latur, Bombay as she presents documents for a new house in 1994.
Reuters
#9 Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, met Mother Teresa in 1990 during her visit to India.?
Reuters
#10 On her many visits abroad, a distressed devotee got emotional and grabbed Mother Teresa hand in Peru.?
Reuters
