Top award for Mother Teresa
NZPA-Reuter Washington Mother Teresa, the nun who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her life’s work among the desperately poor of Calcutta, has accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honour.
President Reagan joked at a sun-splashed ceremony in the White House Rose Garden that she might take the gold medal home and melt it down to raise money for the poor. He hailed the diminutive, Yugoslav-born nun as “The Saint of the Gutters” and praised her work among the impoverished. Mother Teresa kissed the medal and accepted “this gift in spirit and love” on behalf of the world’s poor.
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Press, 24 June 1985, Page 16
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