Word: saint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spending the money on the poor instead. Jesus' famous rebuke to his followers: "Ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always." And Mother would have nodded, recognizing our need to deliver the tributes, to shed the tears, to try to anoint her as a saint. But then she would point us to many of the people who had come to see her make her final round through the streets of Calcutta. And Mother would say, "The poor are with you still. There is work to be done...
...Balkan ethnic brawl. She would always be silent about her early life, but she told Muggeridge she had a vocation to serve the poor from the time she was 12. At 18, Agnes joined Ireland's Sisters of Loreto and took the name Teresa in honor of the French saint Therese of Lisieux, renowned for her piety, goodness and unflinching courage in the face of illness and early death...
...spring of 1985, and President Reagan had just given Mother Teresa the Medal of Freedom in a Rose Garden ceremony. As she left, she walked down the corridor between the Oval Office and the West Wing drive, and there she was, turning my way. What a sight: a saint in a sari coming down the White House hall. As she came nearer, I could not help it: I bowed. "Mother," I said, "I just want to touch your hand." She looked up at me--it may have been one of God's subtle jokes that his exalted child spent...
...York City's South Bronx, where the founder of the Missionaries of Charity was recuperating from an illness at one of her order's residences. Surrounding the world's two most recognizable women were the dusty tenements and gutted cars of the not yet revived area. The Saint of the Gutters was in her element, which more recently had become Diana's too. That is why the princess came to meet the nun, to pay her respects to the woman whose devotion to the poor and dying she was beginning to absorb...
...world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted." Especially in a season that celebrates God's goodwill toward man, Mother Teresa's own loving luminosity prompts many to bestow on her a title that she would surely reject. She is, they say, a living saint...