PTI | September 04,
2016
To
celebrate the canonisation of Mother Teresa as a saint, India Post on sunday
released a commemorative postage stamp on her. Union Minister of State for
Communications Manoj Sinha unveiled the postage stamp during a ceremony at the
Divine Child High School here, an official statement said.
Bishop
Agnelo Gracias and Sister Rubella, a representative from Missionaries of
Charity, were present at the ceremony.
Teresa,
who worked for the destitute in Kolkata and became a global icon of Christian
charity, was declared a saint by Pope Francis at the Vatican on Sunday. Her
elevation to Roman Catholicism's celestial pantheon came in a canonisation mass
in St Peter's square in the Vatican that was presided over by Pope Francis in
the presence of 100,000 pilgrims.
"For
the honour of the Blessed Trinity. we declare and define Blessed Teresa of
Calcutta (Kolkata) to be a Saint and we enroll her among the Saints, decreeing
that she is to be venerated as such by the whole Church," the pontiff said
in Latin.
The
ceremony came a day before the 19th anniversary of Teresa's death in Kolkata,
the Indian city where she spent nearly four decades tending to the poorest of
the poor. Teresa spent all her adult life in India, first teaching, then
tending to the dying poor.
It
was in the latter role, at the head of her now worldwide order that Teresa
became one of the most famous women on the planet.
Born
to Kosovan Albanian parents in Skopje - then part of the Ottoman empire, now
the capital of Macedonia - she won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize and was revered
around the world as a beacon for the Christian values of self-sacrifice and
charity.
Source
: http://www.newsnation.in
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