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.








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