On the 110th birth anniversary of St Mother Teresa, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra recalled the day she had lost her father Rajiv Gandhi. The Congress leader recalled the day when Mother Teresa visited the family after former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated in May 1991. Priyanka, in a tweet, shared pictures of her working with the Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity and wrote the words shared by saint Mother Teresa.
Priyanka Gandhi wrote, “Shortly after my father was killed, Mother Teresa came to see us. I had fever. She sat by my bedside, held my hand and said ‘Come and work with me”.
“I did so for many years, and owe her a great debt of gratitude for the abiding friendship of all the MC (Missionaries of Charity) sisters who continue to show me the path of selfless service and love,” she added.
.. who continue to show me the path of selfless service and love.
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— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) August 26, 2020
Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, presently the capital of North Macedonia, to a family of Albanians. She left home at a young age and came to India in 1929 with the Loreto nuns. She left the congregation in the late 1940s and started the Missionaries of Charity to work among the poor. The Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor, was founded by her. Sister Teresa learned to speak both Bengali and Hindi fluently as she taught geography and history and dedicated herself to alleviating the girls’ poverty through education.
Considered one of the 20th Century’s greatest humanitarians, she was canonized as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.