Mother Teresa, a Catholic nun who devoted her life to the poor, died today at the age of 87. After suffering a heart attack in 1983, her health began deteriorating, but she remained active in the Missionaries of Charity, a religious order she established to care for "the poorest of the poor."
"Mother Teresa, the frail Nobel Peace Prize-winning nun who ministered to the poor, sick and dying and came to embody charity and goodness for countless millions, died Friday evening at her convent here,” reported The Post Standard on September 6, 1997. “She was 87 and had been in frail health for years. Bowed almost double by age and afflictions, her labors reflected in the wrinkles on her beatific face, Mother Teresa died when her heart simply stopped, Dr. Vincenzo Bilotta said from Rome."
NOTE: Diana, Princess of Wales, died just six days earlier. "It is one of those great ironies of life that these two women who so deeply respected each other - and who, each in her own way, represented the ideals of virtue to millions - would be gone in the same week," commented the Syracuse Herald Journal on September 6, 1997.
Links to the Past
Passage of an Angel
The Post-Standard, September 6, 1997
Continued: 'If There are Poor on the Moon, We Shall Go There Too...'
The Saintly Nun's Work Will Continue, Pope Says
Syracuse Herald Journal, September 6, 1997
Continued: Calcutta's Poor Mourn for Nun Who Loved Them
Mother Teresa Dies at 87
The Capital, September 6, 1997
Continued: Teresa
Two Different Women Shared a Mission
Syracuse Herald Journal, September 6, 1997
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Sarah Palin, John McCain’s surprise pick for vice presidential candidate, spoke on Wednesday evening at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Alaska Governor spent a good portion of her speech introducing herself and her values to the world, calling herself a “hockey mom” and talking about her past in Alaska. She also addressed Democratic candidate Barack Obama, deriding him for being a media star with no substance or experience and concluding that she “accept[s] the challenge of a tough fight.”
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