SIGNED BY MOTHER TERESA

MOTHER TERESA. Typed letter signed. Calcutta, no date. Single sheet of paper with reproduced prayer card on verso, measuring 6-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches. $3500.

Prayer card from the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta featuring a typed letter encouraging the recipient to serve the poor, signed: “M Teresa MC.”

The typed letter reads in full: "+LDM Dear Carrie, This brings you my prayers and best wishes. God loves you. Spread the fragrance of this love to all around you, specially to those who have nothing and no one to call their own. Give Jesus your hands to serve the poor and your heart to love them. And in doing so, you will receive much more. keep the joy of loving through sharing. God bless you. [signed] M Teresa MC." Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Thirty years prior, the Albanian nun had left her teaching post at a Roman Catholic school in Calcutta to devote her life to working among the poorest in the slums. Mother Teresa was canonized as St. Teresa of Calcutta in 2016. With a printed image of Mother Teresa and a printed quote from Isaiah on the verso. Small typing correction in an unknown hand.

Fine condition.