Thousands flocked to Calcutta, India, last week in spite of monsoon rains that flooded the streets. They came to honor a woman many of them called, simply, Mother. More than 50 mourners a minute went inside St. Thomas Church to say a prayer and goodbye.
Mother Teresa, a Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to helping the very poor, was 87 when she died. Her funeral last Saturday was held in a stadium so that thousands could mark the end of her amazing life.
Now more than 4,000 members of the order she founded, the Missionaries of Charity, will continue her work. "Mother Teresa is my mother and my father," said Sukumar Halder, an orphan she saved from Calcutta's streets as a toddler. "Thank God that I fell into Mother's hands."