Mumbai: To celebrate the
canonisation of Mother Teresa as a saint, IndiaPost 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.The commemorative
postage stamp of Saint Teresa released after the canonisation ceremony.
AP 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"For the
honour of the Blessed Trinity... we declare and define Blessed Teresa of
Calcutta (Kolkata) to be a Saint and we enrol 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.
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