On Mother Teresa's 111th Birth Anniversary, UN Pays Homage With Postage Stamp

Mother Teresa birth anniversary: After arriving in India in 1929, she started teaching at a school in Kolkata (then Calcutta) but left the job to work with the poor in 1948.

Today marks Mother Teresa's 111th birth anniversary. The United Nations (UN) has paid a glowing tribute to Mother Teresa by releasing a definitive postage stamp on August 12, to mark her birth anniversary. India's Permanent Representative to the UN and President of UN Security Council for August, TS Tirumurti, tweeted photos of  the stamp on Wednesday. .@UN pays homage to #BharatRatna Mother Teresa@unstamps released a definitive postage stamp of #NobelPeacePrize#MotherTeresa on 12 August“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” - MT pic.twitter.com/suVL2DgIfL The stamp has an image of the Nobel laureate and Bharat Ratna. It also has one of her most famous messages. It reads, “Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.” Honoured by Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, she was known for her selfless love for the poor and work to help them. She was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia, she dedicated her life to God when she was only 12. In 1928, she moved to Ireland and a year later, to India.