On October 19th, 2003, Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, known throughout the world as
Mother Theresa of Calcuta, was beatified by Pope John Paul II. Prime
Minister Edi Rama, on the 12th anniversary of her beatification has
brought to attention moments of her life:
“Mother Theresa said one day, a woman was brought to her center. She had lived on the streets for her entire life and her body was full of wounds being consumed from gangrene. While she was cursing the entire world, Mother Theresa was cleaning her wounds. ‘Why are you doing this, nun?’, she had been asked. ‘For the sake of my God.’, she had replied. ‘Which God is this?’, the woman had asked. Mother Theresa had embraced her and said: ‘You know the answer. It is love’”, Rama declared.
The Minister of Social Matters, Blendi Klosdi, said there ill be a new law for volunteer works, which the Albanian society needs so much for the people in difficulties.
Mother Theresa: “I was born in Skopje, I studied in London, I live in Calcuta, and I work for all poor people in the world. My country is a small place named Albania”.
This is Mother Theresa, the woman who came to life from two Albanian parents in Skopje, on August 26th. By eighteen she was member of the charity missionary order of nuns, where she was baptized with the name Theresa. Some years later she founded the order “Missionaries of Love”, for which she was known throughout the world as Mother Theresa of Calcuta.
Until the ‘80s, her mission was taking care of 7500 children in 60 schools. She was medicating 960.000 sick persons in 213 stations. Her mission was the only one in the world that was treating 47.000 leper victims in 54 different clinics. She was taking care of 3400 abandoned elder citizens in 20 asylum homes. She had adopted 160 children.
After serving to the poor for half a century, Mother Theresa died on Septembe 5th, 1997, at the age of 87. She rests at the See of the Charity Missionary Order in Calcuta.
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