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    St. Teresa of Calcutta

    THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AND MOTHER TERESA

    Address to Supreme Council Employees

    ‘Holiness is not the luxury of the few. It is a simple duty for you and for me,’ Mother Teresa said during her 1988 visit to the Supreme Council headquarters.

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    THE ORDER’S RESOLUTION HONORING MOTHER TERESA

    At the 134th Supreme Convention in August 2016, the Knights of Columbus approved a resolution honoring Mother Teresa on the occasion of her upcoming canonization.

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    Charity Personified

    Mother Teresa’s official canonization portrait, commissioned by the Knights of Columbus, was unveiled during a press conference held at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine, Sept. 1, 2016.

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    100TH ANNIVERSARY OF MOTHER TERESA’S BIRTH

    In 2010, the Knights of Columbus Museum hosted a ceremony unveiling a new postage stamp in honor of Mother Teresa’s 100th birthday.

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    MOTHER TERESA CALLS ALL TO GREATER HOLINESS

    The 1992 States Dinner at the Order’s 110th annual meeting was given a special dimension by the presentation of the newly created Knights of Columbus Gaudium et Spes (Joy and Hope) Award to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, foundress and superior general of the Missionaries of Charity.

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    MORE ABOUT MOTHER TERESA

    The Light Amid the Darkness

    An essential key to understanding Mother Teresa’s ‘darkness' is to examine it in light of her religious and missionary vocation.

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    IT ALL BEGINS WITH PRAYER

    Mother Teresa strongly believed that prayer and family life are of central importance.

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