Bhubaneswar: An important road in Bhubaneswar was today named after Mother Teresa coinciding with her canonisation ceremony at the Vatican.
Dedicating the road linking Satya Nagar and Cuttack-Puri highway in her memory, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said henceforth the pathway would be known as 'Saint Mother Teresa Road'.
"I pay my heartfelt tributes to Mother Teresa on her canonisation as Saint Mother Teresa. She arrived in India in 1929 and made this country her home to serve the poor, the deceased and the destitute," Mr Patnaik said.
The decision to name the road after Mother Teresa was taken at the request of the Odisha Catholic Bishops' Council (OCBC) Chairman Archbishop John Barwa.
She had first visited Bhubaneswar in 1974 and met the then Chief Minister Nandini Satpathy and Governor Akbar Ali Khan. Since then she visited Odisha several times.
Dedicating the road linking Satya Nagar and Cuttack-Puri highway in her memory, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said henceforth the pathway would be known as 'Saint Mother Teresa Road'.
"I pay my heartfelt tributes to Mother Teresa on her canonisation as Saint Mother Teresa. She arrived in India in 1929 and made this country her home to serve the poor, the deceased and the destitute," Mr Patnaik said.
The decision to name the road after Mother Teresa was taken at the request of the Odisha Catholic Bishops' Council (OCBC) Chairman Archbishop John Barwa.
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She had first visited Bhubaneswar in 1974 and met the then Chief Minister Nandini Satpathy and Governor Akbar Ali Khan. Since then she visited Odisha several times.
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