Relics of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be on display at the Cathedral of St. Andrew in Little Rock Wednesday, July 28.
The relics will include her rosary, crucifix, sandals and a reliquary containing some of her blood. Like all Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded in 1950, Mother Teresa had very few belongings. The crucifix is the one she wore from the time of her first vows at age 20 until her death in 1997 at age 87. The rosary and sandals were those used by Mother Teresa at the time of her death.
The tour of the relics through the eastern and midwestern United States was organized by the Missionaries of Charity in honor of her birth 100 years ago. Little Rock will be the last stop of the tour before the relics are returned to the order’s motherhouse in Calcutta, India.
Reconciliation will be offered from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m. Bishop Anthony B. Taylor will celebrate Mass at 6:30 p.m. The relics can be viewed from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and shortly after Mass in the Cathedral.
Mother Teresa was born in Albania on Aug. 26, 1910. She visited Little Rock in 1982 and agreed to send her sisters to operate Abba House, a shelter for pregnant mothers and their children, in 1983. She was beatified in 2003.
Little Rock last stop on tour of Mother Teresa relics
