Dr. Suresh Kumar Agarwal, Chancellor, Pragyan International University presenting the Seva Chakra Award to the Nobel Laureate Blessed Mother Teresa at the Seminar on the occasion of World Health Day, 1995
"By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the heart of Jesus."
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1977)
Mother Teresa is being declared a saint by Pope Francis on Sunday at a canonisation ceremony to be held in Vatican City. The canonization on September 4 comes on the eve of her 19th death anniversary. Once declared Saint, she will be known as Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
On the eve of Canonization of Mother Teresa to Sainthood, Pragyan International University is celebrating this momentous occasion and remembering the role played by this young compassionate person who led a life of devotion working tirelessly for the dying and abandoned.
Mother Teresa - God's Messenger of Love:
Born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, in what is now Macedonia, Mother Teresa joined the Loreto order of Roman Catholic nuns in 1928. She was traveling from Calcutta to Darjeeling in 1946 when she decided to start the Missionaries of Charity order. Since its establishment in 1950, the order has set up hundreds of shelters that care for some of the world's neediest, people she described as "the poorest of the poor."
Her work, which began in Kolkata's festering slums and spread across the world, won Mother Teresa a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Her work, which began in Kolkata's festering slums and spread across the world, won Mother Teresa a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
It also won her immense love in her adopted home. When she died on September 5, 1997, at age 87, hundreds of thousands of local people poured out into the streets to bid farewell.
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