Mother Teresa’s death anniversary marked in Kolkata
September 06, 2013 - Hundreds of people in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata, formerly
called Calcutta, gathered to observe the 16th death anniversary of Blessed
Teresa of Kolkata on Thursday. "Those who want to please Mother Teresa on her feast
day should emulate her charity first at home and then among the poor in the neighborhood,"
Sister Prema the head of the Missionaries of Charity (MC) said at the mother house.
Born of Albanian parents on Aug. 26, 1910 in Skopje, now in Macedonia, Mother Teresa
joined the Irish Sisters of Loreto and arrived in Calcutta in 1929. In 1950 she founded
her congregation of the Missionaries of Charity. The 1979 Nobel Peace laureate died
on Sept. 5, 1997 in Kolkata, and Pope John Paul II declared her Blessed in 2003.
“The MC mother house is the hub of charity," said Father Dominic Gomes, vicar general
of Kolkata archdiocese, pointing out that some 5,100 nuns from the congregation work
in over 120 nations. (Source: UCANews)
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