Saint-in-waiting

A nun belonging to the order of the Missionaries of Charity walking past a portrait of Mother Teresa during the Mass of Birth Centenary Closing Eucharistic Celebration in Kolkatam yesterday. Mother Teresa, the Angel of Mercy, a Nobel peace prize winner...

A nun belonging to the order of the Missionaries of Charity walking past a portrait of Mother Teresa during the Mass of Birth Centenary Closing Eucharistic Celebration in Kolkatam yesterday. Mother Teresa, the Angel of Mercy, a Nobel peace prize winner and Roman Catholic saint-in-waiting, was born on August 26, 1910 to Albanian parents in what is now Skopje in Macedonia.

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