Photo Story: Mother Teresa’s death is remembered in Kolkata

Sister Prema (R), superior-general of the Mother House, speaks during a mass to mark the 22nd anniversary of Mother Teresa’s death, at The Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, 05 September 2019.

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia, died on the 5th September of 1997.

She began her missionary work with the poor in Kolkata in 1948 and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa was canonization as a saint by Pope Francis in 2016.

 

Photo: EPA-EFE/PIYAL ADHIKARY

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