Her life was completely devoted to the poor and the needy. She wore a blue-bordered white sari worth $1 to identify herself with the poor.
Once when Pope Paul VI gave her a white Lincoln Continental, she auctioned the car, using the money to establish a colony of leprosy patients in West Bengal.
Her words: "I have never been in a war before, but I have seen famine and death. I was asking (myself), 'What do they feel when they do this?' I don't understand it. They are all children of God. Why do they do it? I don't understand." -- Beirut 1982, during fighting between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.
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