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Mother Teresa sainthood: Mamata sings Tagore songs, gifts Pope a Bangla Bible
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee gifted a Bible in Bengali that was bound in Baluchuri silk to Pope Francis at Vatican City after the canonisation ceremony of Mother Teresa.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee gifted a Bible in Bengali that was bound in Baluchuri silk to Pope Francis at Vatican City after the canonisation ceremony of Mother Teresa.
In a tweet, the chief minister -- who was in the Vatican to attend the function -- said Missionaries of Charity’s superior general Sister Prema and Archbishop of Kolkata will hand over the holy book to the Pope.
“Sr Prema & Kolkata Archbishop met @MamataOfficial today. This Bible bound in Baluchuri to b handed over to @Pontifex,” Banerjee tweeted on Sunday.
Banerjee was leading a 12-member official delegation to the Vatican as a guest of the Missionaries.
The chief minister and her delegates, including MPs Sudip Bandopadhyay and Derek O’Brien, were also seen walking to the venue of the ceremony by singing songs of Rabindranath Tagore.
Banerjee walked with members of her delegation to St Peter’s Basilica, where Mother Teresa was conferred sainthood.
Sporting a white saree with a blue border, Banerjee -- flanked by Bandyopadhyay and O’Brien among others - covered the distance from Rome to the St. Peter’s Basilica by doing a traditional Bengali “prabhat pheri” (morning choir).
Crowds gathered and passersby also stopped to listen to Tagore’s ‘Aguner Poroshmoni’ and ‘Prano Bhoriye Trisha Horiye’.
