On his trip to India in 1964, Pope Paul VI gave her his white Lincoln Continental, which she raffled off to help the poor. In 1968. Paul called her from India to found a home for the poor, staffed mostly by Indian nuns, in Rome itself. Last week the Pontiff named Albanian-born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu Mother Teresa of the Missionaries of Charitythe first winner of the $25,000 John XXIII Peace Prize.
Like other gifts to Mother Teresa, the money will go quickly to benefit the "poorest of the poor," to whom she has devoted her life. After two decades as a teaching...
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