On Sunday, October 31, Fort Lauderdale Postmaster Jerry Long will dedicate the Mother Teresa stamp following the 10:30 am mass at St. Maurice Church, 2851 Stirling Road in Dania. Following the All Saints Day service, the approximate time for the stamp dedication will be 11:45 am.Mother Teresa, an ethnic Albanian, was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje in what is now the Republic of Macedonia. Drawn to the religious life as a young girl, she left her home at the age of 18 to serve as a Roman Catholic missionary in India.
“By then I realized my vocation was towards the poor,” she later said. “From then on, I have never had the least doubt of my decision.”
Having adopted the name of Sister Mary Teresa, she arrived in India in 1929 and underwent initial training in religious life at a convent in Darjeeling, north of Calcutta. Two years later, she took temporary vows as a nun before transferring to a convent in Calcutta. She became known as Mother Teresa in 1937, when she took her final vows.
(This dedication is an off-the-clock activity for employees.)
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