Photos from HT archives: A glimpse into the life of Saint Mother Teresa

On Mother Teresa's 20th death anniversary, a selection of photos from HT archives sheds light on the saints persona. Canonised in 2016 as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, she has now been chosen as the co-patroness of the Archdiocese of Calcutta to be formally announced on September 6, 2017.

Updated on: Sep 05, 2017 9:05 PM IST

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Queen Elizabeth II greets Mother Teresa during her meeting on November 24, 1983. Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa spent her life taking care of the poor and the destitute. Canonised in 2016 as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, she has now been chosen as the co-patroness of the Archdiocese of Calcutta. Her compassion and aid work for those suffering from leprosy, the terminally ill and society’s outcasts made her a global icon of Christian charity. A dig through the HT archives sheds light on her persona. (Virendra Prabhakar / HT PHOTO)

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House of Destitute Children’s home in New Delhi on February 21, 1976. She was born to Kosovan Albanian parents in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire and now the capital of Macedonia. After living there for 18 years, she moved to Ireland and then to India where she spent majority of her lifetime. The saint once said, ‘By birth I am an Albanian, as a citizen I am Indian: By faith I am a Catholic; and my calling is to serve humanity. (Ajit Kumar / HT PHOTO)

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Mother Teresa being awarded by former President of India, Shankar Dayal Sharma on November 15, 1990. While her avowed mission remained to care for the destitutes, everyone around her felt enriched by love. ‘She always had time for everybody,’ said Father Dominic Gomes, vicar-general of the Archdiocese of Calcutta.The Archbishop of Calcutta Thomas D’Souza is set to formally declare St Teresa as its co-patroness on September 06, 2017 before a holy mass. (Virendra Prabhakar / HT PHOTO)

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Mother Teresa with nuns from her mission on February 03, 1976. In honour of her charity work, she was awarded the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Bharat Ratna in 1980, followed by the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. In 1997 upon her passing, the government of India accorded her a state funeral. Today, her tomb is a place of pilgrimage and prayer for thousands of visitors. (KK Chawla / HT PHOTO)

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Mother Teresa with former president of India Neelam Sanjiva Reddy on March 22, 1980. But her legacy hasn’t been devoid of criticism with many blaming her of forced conversions and providing bad health care. For some, problems arose from her ‘image’ often circumscribed as being colonial --that of a white woman shedding light on the poverty of brown people. Author Christopher Hitchens in his essay called her ‘a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud.’ (HT PHOTO)

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Mother Teresa meets people after Indira Gandhi’s assassination on November 01, 1984. She was the founder of the order of Missionaries of Charity was declared a saint at a canonization mass presided over by Pope Francis in St Peter’s square at the Vatican City in the presence of 100,000 pilgrims on September 04, 2016. (SN Sinha / HT PHOTO)

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Saint Teresa died of a heart attack on September 05,1997 at Mother House in Calcutta. She had already ensured that a successor, Sister Nirmala was in place to lead the order. Sister Nirmala had this to say about her, ‘Even when His glorious light falls on a dust particle, it begins to shine. So Mother was blessed with that glory. Her death provoked universal grief.’ (Girish Srivastava/ HT PHOTO)