Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian nun who through the grace of God, sheer force of personality and belief had an enormous impact on the care of the poor, the sick, and the dying that resulted in her winning Nobel prize in 1979. Through her transcendental spirituality she amassed a worldwide constituency devoted to charitable works, and there are now some six hundred homes around the world dedicated to serving the poor.

This authorized pictorial history is a photographic tribute to Mother Teresa's extraordinary achievements and has been compiled by her closest associate as a tribute for the first anniversary of her death. Using photographs from around the world, the majority of which have never been published before, it includes pictures of her as a ypung girl in Albania, addressing the US Senate, the magnificent pomp of the Indian State funeral and her simple tomb. But the major part of the book follows the daily round of the sisters and focuses on the charismatic figure of Mother Teresa herself.

Sunita Kumar was a close associate and friend of Mother Teresa's for over thirty years. Educated in convents in Lahore Delhi and Calcutta she worked with Mother Teresa from 1965 until her death, initially as the link between the Missionaries of Charity and the co-workers for volunteers and then as the spokeswoman for the order. A Hindu, she is married to Naresh Kumar, a former Davis Cup tennis player and captain, and has three children and six grandchildren.