‘We owe our lives to Mother Teresa’

ADMIRERS of Mother Teresa wept with joy and prayed in her adopted hometown of Calcutta yesterday as Pope John Paul II beatified the Saint of the Gutters.

Rallies, prayers and feasts were held across the country in honour of the nun, an ethnic Albanian born in what is now Macedonia, who devoted her life to serving the poor.

In Calcutta, more than 500 schoolchildren marched in a rally carrying placards and portraits of Mother Teresa.