Mother Teresa, the tiny Albanian nun who became a giant of the faith, will be canonized Sunday at a Vatican mass. Founder of the Missions of Charity religious order, Mother Teresa’s unwavering and determined devotion poor in India and around the world serves as an inspiration across the entire Body of Christ.
We honor her today with but a few scenes from her remarkable life and ministry.
November 1960: Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997)
In 1975, Mother Teresa, missionary in India, speaks with a sick young Indian boy taken in by the shelter created by her congregation, The Missionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa and the poor in Calcutta, India in October, 1979.
In June of 1982, Mother Teresa visited St. Paul, Alberta, to receive a gift from the community — a small house. She promptly sold the house to build a leper colony in India. At a media conference she smiles at a reporter’s question.
England’s Queen Elizabeth II (R) presents the Order of Merit to Mother Teresa of Calcutta in India, 1982
A kiss among saints. John-Paul II and Mother Teresa in Calcutta, India on February 03, 1986.
US President George Bush (R) listens to Mother Teresa (L) during a meeting in the White House Oval Office 09 December 1991, Washington,DC. Mother Teresa was in Washington to attend the initiation ceremony of new nuns into her order.
Mother Teresa blessing a child at the Gift of Love Home in Singapore in 1993.
Mother Teresa Blessing Sister Nirmala, the new head of the Missionaries of Charity, at Mother Teresa’s house in Calcutta. Sister Nirmala was elected to replace Mother Teresa.
Princess Diana, Princess of Wales holds hands with Mother Teresa following a meeting in the Bronx on June 18, 1997 in New York, United States. Tragically, both passed away only months later.
The body of Mother Teresa is carried by soldiers near the Missionaries of Charity at the end of her funeral procession in Calcutta, September 13, 1997
Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity gather in front of the official canonization portrait of Mother Teresa, along with artist Chas Fagan (L), during a portrait unveiling ceremony at The Saint John Paul II National Shrine, September 1, 2016 in Washington, DC.