“Homage to Mother Teresa”
“Homage to Mother Teresa”

“Homage to Mother Teresa”

Photo and video tribute
31 August - 10 September 2016
Courtyard of the Cuirasses

This is the title of the tribute in images that the Vatican Museums pay to Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the "little pencil in the hand of God", on the occasion of the canonisation at which Pope Francis will preside on Sunday 4 September in St. Peter's Square.

From 31 August to 10 September, thirteen large-scale photographs selected from the photo archive of L'Osservatore Romano, along with a video contribution produced by the Vatican Television Centre, will retrace and show to visitors passing through the Courtyard of the Cuirasses  the key moments in the life of the Albanese missionary and her numerous and moving encounters in the Vatican with John Paul II.

Not only the images, but also the words pronounced by Mother Teresa herself during some of her visits or interviews, will offer a commentary to the journey of Mercy that the Saint bore witness to in every instant of her life, more meaningful than ever at the end of this Jubilee year.