IndiaPost releases postage stamp on Mother Teresa

Mumbai, Sep 4 (PTI) To celebrate the canonisation ofMother Teresa as a saint, IndiaPost today released acommemorative postage stamp on her. Union Minister of State for Communications Manoj Sinhaunveiled the postage stamp during a ceremony at the DivineChild High School here, an official statement said. Bishop Agnelo Gracias and Sister Rubella, arepresentative from Missionaries of Charity, were present atthe ceremony. Teresa, who worked for the destitute in Kolkata andbecame a global icon of Christian charity, was declared asaint by Pope Francis at the Vatican today. Her elevation to Roman Catholicism’s celestial pantheoncame in a canonisation mass in St Peter’s square in theVatican that was presided over by Pope Francis in the presenceof 100,000 pilgrims. "For the honour of the Blessed Trinity… we declare anddefine Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (Kolkata) to be a Saint andwe enrol her among the Saints, decreeing that she is to bevenerated as such by the whole Church," the pontiff said inLatin. The ceremony came a day before the 19th anniversary ofTeresa’s death in Kolkata, the Indian city where she spentnearly 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 nowworldwide order that Teresa became one of the most famouswomen on the planet. Born to Kosovan Albanian parents in Skopje – then part ofthe Ottoman empire, now the capital of Macedonia – she won the1979 Nobel Peace Prize and was revered around the world as abeacon for the Christian values of self-sacrifice and charity.PTI AA GKSRY