Kolkata congregation celebrate Blessed Mother Teresa's birth anniversary

26 Aug 2014 3:48 PM IST

A Nun of the Missionaries of Charity garlands a statue of Mother Teresa during celebration of her 104th birth anniversary in Kolkata (Photo: AP)
Mother Teresa made it a point to be in any corner of the world where there was suffering, travelling thousands of miles to comfort an earthquake victim or a starving child. (Photo: AP)
Police detain SUCI women activists blocking a street during the nationwide strike of Trade Union workers to protest against alleged anti-labour policies of the Central government in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)
Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged, and disabled; and a leper colony. She was summoned to Rome in 1968, and in 1979 received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. (Photo: AP)
Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity paying their respect at Mother Teresa's tomb during celebration of her 104th birth anniversary in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Photo: AP)
Baptized on August 27, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, Mother Teresa taught in India for 17 years before she experienced her 1946 "call within a call" to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor. (Photo: AP)

A Nun of the Missionaries of Charity garlands a statue of Mother Teresa during celebration of her 104th birth anniversary in Kolkata (Photo: AP)