(ANSAmed) - ROME, AUGUST 26 - The number of countries issuing
stamps to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of
Mother Teresa of Calcutta continues to grow.
Today (as announced yesterday) three stamps were issued by
the three postal services in countries in the Balkans where
there are Albanian communities present (Albania, Macedonia,
Kosovo) and one stamp was issued by the Austrian postal
services. On September 5th the U.S. postal service will issue a
stamp to commemorate the Albanian-born nun who has been
beatified.
In recent months stamps have been dedicated to Anieza Gonxhe
Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa's birth name, born in Skopje on August
26 1910, died on September 5 1997) also by the postal services
in Monaco (April 29), France (May 31), Ireland (17 June) and
Germany (August 12), reports ''vaccari news'', a website
dedicated to stamp collecting.
Practically all of the designers involved chose to create
stamps depicting Mother Teresa, showing her many wrinkles, but
also a smiling and radiant face of the veritable icon of
Christian charity and the commitment to help the deprived.
(ANSAmed).
MOTHER TERESA: ALBANIA, MACEDONIA, KOSOVO ISSUE STAMPS
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