College to Mark Mother Teresa's 100th Birthday with Lighting, Building Name

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Mother Teresa with Sr. Noreen Hurter, OSB, (left) and Sr. Kathleen Egan, OSB

ATCHISON, KS (07/13/2010)(readMedia)-- As the world prepares to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Benedictine College has taken the lead by both illuminating campus buildings in blue and by naming its new nursing building the "Mother Teresa Center for Nursing and Health Education." The Catholic college, founded in 1858, added the lighting after the Empire State Building turned down a request to be lit in blue on August 26 in honor of Mother Teresa. In addition to the lighting and naming, the college will also offer a prayer for her canonization on Sept. 4 during the college's first home football game.

WHO:

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Benedictine College
WHAT:

Benedictine College will mark the 100th anniversary of Mother Teresa's birth by lighting buildings on campus in blue and naming its new nursing building the "Mother Teresa Center for Nursing and Health Education."
WHEN: Thursday August 26, 2010 at 12:15PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: Benedictine College
1020 N. Second St.
Atchison, Kansas 66002
NOTES:

Interviews with Sr. Kathleen Egan can be arranged.  Sr. Kathleen was a vice-chairperson of Co-Workers of Mother Teresa and the sister of the late Eileen Egan, Mother Teresa's longtime friend and biographer.