Seven Years of Mother Theresa’s Death

Awarded Recognitions “Epistle Mother Theresa”

“Maybe we cannot do great things, but we can sure do little with a lot of love” are words of Mother Theresa, a great humanist and a citizen of the world. The world has admired Mother Theresa for her sacrifice-ness and dedication to the ill and hungry, to the abandoned and lonely. The recognition, the Nobel Prize for Peace came in 1979. Honouring the prize and the seven years since the death of Gonxa Bojaxiu, on 5th September 2004 an academy was held at the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts in Skopje.

On the academy, organized by the association “Skopjankata Majka Tereza” (Mother Theresa of Skopje), the Mayor of Skopje Risto Penov awarded this year’s recognitions to the President Boris Trajkovski (posthumous), Age Bojaxiu and the Macedonian Center for International Cooperation (MCIC).

Statues with the image of the great women received Miftar Miftari, Mitko Tosev, Skender Kuli, Galaba Zareska and the Home for Elder Persons “Majka Tereza”. The statues were handed by the Minister of Education and Science, Aziz Polozani.

The citizen of the world, Mother Theresa, was born on 26th August 1910 in Skopje. On 26th September 1928 she left her native town to dedicate herself to humanity, the ill and the helpless. She passed away on 5th September 1997 in Calcutta, India. The Pope John Paul II on 19th October 2003 beatified Mother Theresa, i.e. proclaimed her blessed – a step before she is proclaimed to be saint.