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Article: A TOUCH OF IRONY FOR FUNERAL BODY OF MOTHER TERESA, A WOMAN OF PEACE, TO BE CARRIED ON GUN CARRIAGE.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 9, 1997
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Mother Teresa, whose message of peace and compassion went beyond the boundaries of creed and nationality, will go to her burial place on a gun carriage, draped in the Indian flag.
The military trappings of Saturday's state funeral might clash with the image of the Nobel Peace laureate - but church leaders said yesterday it was just the government's way of giving Mother Teresa its most prestigious farewell.
The Rev. Anthony Rodricks, an aide to Calcutta's Roman Catholic archbishop, Henry D'Souza, acknowledged there had been objections to the gun carriage.
``People might think of war when they see a gun carriage, but this is not the way it should ...