Albania commemorates Mother Teresa
Albania will hold a 10-day extravaganza of cultural events in memory of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
Thursday, 06.09.2007.
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Albania will hold a 10-day extravaganza of cultural events in memory of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. The ethnic Albanian nun's missionary work earned her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and undying respect around the world. Albania commemorates Mother Teresa The initiative, which comes on the 10th anniversary of the death of “Calcutta’s angel of mercy” on September 5, has been launched by the Albanian Ministry of Culture, under the patronage of Prime Minister Sali Berisha. The program of events starts on Wednesday with a classical music concert in the Palace of Brigades in Tirana, followed by an exhibition at the National Museum entitled, “Mother Teresa - in Memoriam.” Another concert will be held in Tirana’s Catholic Cathedral, while the National Arts Gallery will present a collection of works of Albanian painters centered on the life and work of the Catholic nun. The National Library will hold a conference with the theme, “Mother Theresa and other Albanian Saints down the Centuries”. The activities will culminate with the unveiling of a new monument in her honour at Tirana’s Mother Teresa International Airport - the work of Kosovar sculptor Luan Mulliqi. “The monument at the airport will be a first step,” said Albania’s Minister of Culture, Ylli Pango, “but for such an inspiring figure there should be more of them, and we are already looking into this.” Born in 1910 as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, of ethnic Albanian parents, Mother Teresa, is best known for her missionary work in her adopted city of Calcutta, India, where she provided a refuge for the poor to die in dignity. From the 1960s her work spread across the world with care homes and hospices opened in more than 50 countries. Mother Teresa’ work was perhaps best summed up in tribute the French President of the time, Jacques Chirac, paid on the day of her death, September 5, 1997: “This evening there is less love, less compassion, less light in the world.”
Albania commemorates Mother Teresa
The initiative, which comes on the 10th anniversary of the death of “Calcutta’s angel of mercy” on September 5, has been launched by the Albanian Ministry of Culture, under the patronage of Prime Minister Sali Berisha.The program of events starts on Wednesday with a classical music concert in the Palace of Brigades in Tirana, followed by an exhibition at the National Museum entitled, “Mother Teresa - in Memoriam.”
Another concert will be held in Tirana’s Catholic Cathedral, while the National Arts Gallery will present a collection of works of Albanian painters centered on the life and work of the Catholic nun.
The National Library will hold a conference with the theme, “Mother Theresa and other Albanian Saints down the Centuries”.
The activities will culminate with the unveiling of a new monument in her honour at Tirana’s Mother Teresa International Airport - the work of Kosovar sculptor Luan Mulliqi.
“The monument at the airport will be a first step,” said Albania’s Minister of Culture, Ylli Pango, “but for such an inspiring figure there should be more of them, and we are already looking into this.”
Born in 1910 as Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, of ethnic Albanian parents, Mother Teresa, is best known for her missionary work in her adopted city of Calcutta, India, where she provided a refuge for the poor to die in dignity.
From the 1960s her work spread across the world with care homes and hospices opened in more than 50 countries.
Mother Teresa’ work was perhaps best summed up in tribute the French President of the time, Jacques Chirac, paid on the day of her death, September 5, 1997: “This evening there is less love, less compassion, less light in the world.”
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