Laity and clergy in India welcomed the Vatican’s announcement that the feast of St Teresa of Kolkata will be added to the ...

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“I met Mother Teresa, not face to face, but through the actions of the sisters who worked at the Missionaries of Charity Home for the Dying in Kolkata,” said Bell, who accompanied Mark on her ...

In 1948 she became an Indian citizen and founded the order of Missionaries of Charity in Kolkota (Calcutta) in 1950, which became noted for its work among the poor and the dying in that city.

She was born into an Albanian family and had moved to India in 1929. She set up the Missionaries for Charity in Kolkata, then called Calcutta and continued to live there until her death in 1997.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis has added the feast day of St. Teresa of Kolkata, a “beacon ... only in the proper calendar of the Missionaries of Charity and the proper calendar of India.