100th birthday - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 2010 - 130 Euro Cent

On the occasion of the 100th birthday of Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, who enjoyed worldwide recognition under the name of "Mother Teresa", her own special stamp now appears, which is to be understood as a tribute to this great woman. Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910 in Üsküp in the Ottoman Empire on the territory of present-day Macedonia, where she grew up in a wealthy Catholic family, very religiously educated. Already as a 12-year-old, she decided to live as a nun, at the age of 18, she finally asked for admission to the Order of Loreto sisters. First working in Ireland, she traveled to India a short time later to make her first profession in Calcutta. For the next 17 years she worked at St. Mary's School in Calcutta, where she worked as a teacher, then as a director. On one of her numerous trips through Calcutta, on September 10, 1946, she is said to have felt the divine calling to help the poor. In her diary, she describes this experience as a "mystical encounter with Jesus" who has called her to "give up everything and follow him to the slums to serve him in the poorest of the poor." Two years later, she was allowed to leave the Loreto sisters - she was exclaustrated, d. H. she could leave the Order without giving up her religious status as a nun. From then on, Mother Teresa lived in the slums of Calcutta, where she initially worked as an individual until she was joined by some former students. In 1948, Mother Teresa assumed Indian citizenship, and in 1950 she founded the Order of Missionaries of Charity, which soon received papal approval. The Order cares especially for the dying, orphans and the sick, but its special commitment lies in the care of leprosy people. Today, over 3,000 nuns and more than 500 religious in 710 homes in 133 countries around the world belong to the Order of Mother Teresa. For her almost superhuman work she received numerous prizes, the most important being the Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among the Nations in 1978 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Asked about the often lack of medical training of her staff, she used to reply modestly: "Not success, but faithfulness is important. "On September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa passed away at the age of 87; In a state funeral, with great concern from the world public, she was buried in that monastery which she herself had founded. The solemn beatification - the fastest of modern times - took place on 19 October 2003; in the opinion of many cardinals, a later canonization is to be expected.