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`Angel' of poor is dead Mother Teresa, 87, devoted life to world's `unwanted, unloved' `Angel' of poor is dead
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The Boston Globe
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September 6, 1997
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UDIAPUR, India -- Mother Teresa, the Roman Catholic nun whose
tireless work for the poor and dying won her a place in people's
hearts around the world and earned her a Nobel Peace Prize, died
yesterday of a heart attack. She was 87.
Indians around this vast nation wept upon receiving news of Mother
Teresa's death, and leaders from virtually every country expressed
grief at her loss. In Calcutta, the headquarters of her Missionaries
of Charity where she died, thousands of peasants flooded the streets
in the rain before dawn, sobbing and proclaiming their eternal
gratitude to the woman they affectionately called "the saint of the
gutters." Mother Teresa will be buried at her order's ...
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