Kolkata : Between the Vatican and Kolkata, Spaniard Aristides Bermejo, who had met Mother Teresa several times, chose the eastern Indian metropolis to celebrate her canonisation, as “this is where it all began”.
As hundreds of pilgrims from across the world thronged the Mother House, the global headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity on yet another rainy Sunday morning, Bermejo and his family were ecstatic.
“I had the option of going to Rome. But I chose Calcutta (Kolkata’s former name),” Bermejo told IANS here at the Mother House, as Pope Francis declared Teresa a saint of the Catholic Church from his pulpit in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican.
“I came to Calcutta because this is where it all began. I believe Mother loved the people here more. Her presence can be felt here more than any part of the world. This is my personal feeling,” added the public relations officer of a plush hotel in Seville.
Bermejo came to Bengaluru two weeks back. “I stayed at the Mother Teresa Charitable Trust there for a few days. Then I flew down to Calcutta.”
