Mother Teresa of Calcutta prays during a religious service

Mother Teresa of Calcutta prays during a religious service in Pescara, September 20, 1977.

Pope John Paul II holds his arm around Mother Teresa

Pope John Paul II holds his arm around Mother Teresa as they ride in the Popemobile outside the Home of the Dying in Calcutta, India, February 1986.

Entrance to Missionaries of Charity -- Calcutta

Entrance to Missionaries of Charity

Mother Teresa in Atlanta

Mother Teresa in Atlanta

Mother and Diana

The 50p stamp was released on August 31 this year by Ascension Island, a United Kingdom Overseas Territory in the mid South Atlantic (a vital air base during the Falklands conflict). Produced in sheetlets of eight, the stamp depicts a photograph of Mother Teresa and Princess Diana taken when they first met in February 1992, at Mother Teresa’s convent in Rome. Their final meeting took place in June 1997, when they met privately as Princess Diana left the Missionaries of Charity house in the Bronx.

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