On the feast day of Saint Teresa of Calcutta, the faithful in Brooklyn gathered for a special Mass celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisneros at Our Lady of Victory in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Mother Teresa, known around the world for her work helping the poor in India, passed away 27 years ago on Sept. 5.
The church has a special connection to the nun who founded the religious order “Missionaries of Charity.” Saint Teresa visited the Church on Throop Avenue in 1992 to dedicate Queen of Hope, a convent mission house for the order.
Mother Teresa’s legacy lives on in the Diocese of Brooklyn as the convent mission house still helps pregnant women and mothers with young children with nowhere else to turn.