A look at life of Mother Teresa ahead of beatification

(16 Oct 2003) SHOTLIST Calcutta, September 1998 1. Tilt down from Missionaries of Charity headquarters, also known as Mother house 2. Mother Teresa's name plate at entrance of Mother House Calcutta, September 1996 3. Various of Missionaries of Charity nuns going into Mother House 4. Nuns and volunteers at prayer session at Mother House 5. Mid shot of Mother Teresa praying 6. Wide shot Mother Teresa at prayer session Calcutta, 1996 7. Volunteers lifting destitute woman from street and taking her into charity home for dying and destitute "Nirmal Hriday" run by Missionaries of charity, tilt up to building 8. Wide shot nuns and volunteers inside home for dying and destitute 9. Close up hands of old woman 10. Mid shot old woman at Charity home 11. Close shot old woman eating 12. Various of nuns and volunteers distributing food to poor 13. Various of nuns at charity home for children 14. Close up children New Delhi, 1996 15. Mother Teresa with Christian group 16. Cutaway nuns in audience 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Mother Teresa: "From the beginning of this beautiful work, we have picked up from the streets more than 40-thousand people - and over 30-thousand have died the most beautiful death. Loved and cared for...and to see them side by side - you see Hindus, you see Muslims, you see Buddhists, you see Christians - and such tender love among them." New Delhi, May 1997 18. Various of Mother Teresa at Delhi airport, greeting nuns and getting into car 19. Close up Mother Teresa 20. Mid shot Mother Teresa at airport lounge before leaving for Rome Calcutta, October 2003 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Henry D'Souza , former Archbishop of Calcutta: "She came across as a person very close to God and someone who had no self-interest. And in that selfless service for God, she began to serve people." Calcutta, March 1997 22. Representative of Indo-American Society reading scroll of honour for Mother Teresa 23. Close up Mother Teresa 24. Cutaway statue of Christ 25. Mother Teresa blessing guests and leaving Calcutta, September 1997 26. Various of Mother Teresa's funeral Calcutta, September 1998 27. Head of Missionaries of Charity Sister Nirmala praying at Mother Teresa's tomb at Mother House 28. Close up Mother Teresa's tomb stone STORYLINE The Missionaries of Charity headquarters in the eastern Indian city of Calcutta is a landmark for (m) millions of people who have come to associate it with the legendary Mother Teresa. As Pope John Paul II prepares to beatify the famous nun, most agree that she was a living saint for India's poor and deserves eternal veneration for that alone. Mother Teresa will be beatified on October 19 at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, taking her a step closer to sainthood. She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia. She joined the Loreto order of nuns in 1928 and in 1946, while traveling by train from Calcutta to Darjeeling, was inspired to found the Missionaries of Charity order. The order was established four years later and has since opened more than a hundred houses worldwide to provide comfort and care for the needy, sick and "poorest of the poor." Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with Calcutta's destitute and ill. She cared for the impoverished and sick in Calcutta's slums, toiling daily and for long hours even when she was elderly and ailing herself. She died at the age of 87 on September 5, 1997. A year after she died, Pope John Paul II waived the normal five-year waiting period for the beatification process to begin. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...