TIRANA, Sept 5 /ATA/ Prime Minister Edi Rama paid tribute to Mother Teresa on her canonization day.
Rama wrote in a post on his social media account that Mother Teresa is the woman of peace in the world.
Rama paid tribute to Mother Teresa, quoting her as saying, “Take a minute to think, take a minute to pray, take a minute to smile.”
Mother Teresa was canonized on September 4, 201612. She is widely revered as a saint and one of Albania’s most influential national figures. Saint Teresa Canonization Day is observed on September 5. Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of India.
Mother Teresa (baptized August 27, 1910, Skopje, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire [now in Republic of North Macedonia]—died September 5, 1997, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India; canonized September 4, 2016; feast day September 5) was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of India. She was the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1979 Nobel Prize for Peace.
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