India Rejects Mother Teresa Claim

“Mother Teresa was an Indian citizen and she is resting in her own country, her own land,” a foreign ministry spokesman said and the Missionaries of Charity, where she is buried, described the Albanian request as “absurd.” Mother Teresa acquired Indian citizenship in 1951 and is widely expected to be canonized as “Saint of the Gutters” in August by the Pope on the 100th anniversary of her birth.

Mother Teresa once said: “By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world.”