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Liri Berisha: Here's how I met Mother Teresa in 1991

2025-06-02 22:44:00, Aktualitet CNA

Liri Berisha: Here's how I met Mother Teresa in 1991

Liri Berisha, the doctor and wife of the Democratic Party leader Sali Berisha, today recounted the uniqueness of her meeting with Mother Teresa. Invited to the 'Opinion' show with journalist Blendi Fevziu, Berisha also spoke about her family's acquaintance with Mother Teresa's family in the years 1962-1963.

Berisha said that he had had a utopian desire to meet Mother Teresa after she received the Nobel Prize, an event he had followed on television.

"I see on TV that an Albanian receives the Nobel Peace Prize, and upon receiving the Nobel Prize, she tells journalists that I am Albanian by blood. Not only did it impress me, no one thought that such a small woman would receive the Peace Prize."

I was looking at it with great surprise, how is this possible? My mother comes and says to me, do you know who this is? This is the daughter of Drane's mother, Gonxha, she says to me. I tell her, how is this possible? I felt a kind of pride, a kind of pleasure. Then it seemed very painful to me that in this atmosphere so climactic, censorship was complete and it was very painful.

While this news was being broadcast on TV, I remembered that in small circles there was talk about an Albanian woman who helped the poor abroad, that was all. But you have to understand that it shouldn't have been said either, that an Albanian woman... these were before '79.

Ever since I saw him receive the Nobel Prize, I wanted to meet him, but it was a utopian desire, Albania at that time was totally closed. I met him for the first time at the end of '91, it was Christmas Eve and they told us that you have an invitation from Mother Teresa, and you are welcome to visit whenever you want. This was an extraordinary visit.

"I couldn't wait for the day we would go there, it was a cold winter day," Berisha said. /CNA

 

 





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