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Mother Teresa’s 107th birth anniversary celebrated

By: Eastern Eye Staff

Special masses and prayers were held on Saturday at the Missionaries of Charity’s Mother House (MoC) to mark the 107th birth anniversary of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, better known as Mother Teresa. Hundreds of nuns took part in the prayers.  On September 4, 2016, Vatican City had witnessed the canonization of Mother Teresa with people across the world applauding Pope Francis for bestowing the title of a saint to her as ‘Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’.  The process of canonization had started long back in 1999 by a Canadian priest Father Brian Kolodiejchuk, the proposer, heading the canonization process. After interviewing 113 witnesses proving Mother Teresa’s virtuosity, Father Kolodiejchuk presented 35,000 pages as evidence to the Congregation for…

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