A prayer meeting was conducted in memory of Saint Mother Teresa on her 22nd death anniversary at her residence in Kolkata on Thursday. Every year on September 5, devotees of Nobel Prize winner Mother Teresa gather at her gravesite in Kolkata for the special thanksgiving masses and prayers on her death anniversary. Teresa’s followers pay tributes to her with flowers, candles and sing hymns. During the prayers at her residence, the priest recalls her as a woman who served the poorest of the poor across the world and became the defender of the right to life for the unborn and challenged children. Taking to Twitter, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid her sincerest tribute to Teresa. “Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta) passed away on this day in 1997, after a lifetime of service for the poorest of the poor. Sincerest tribute to her. In her memory, the United Nations declared this day as the International Day of Charity,” she wrote.
