NGA GONXHE BOJAXHIU DERI TE NËNË TEREZA FROM GONXHE BOJAXHIU TO MOTHER THERESA
FOREWORD The book "From Gonxhe Bojaxhiu to Mother Teresa - A saga about the life of Albanian Catholics from Skopje", includes a corpus of archival materials on the life and family path of Gonxhe Bojaxhiu-Mother Teresa, some of which are going to be published for the first time in this book. On the basis of these documents it can be concluded that the Bojaxhiu Family had carried the seed of renewal from generation to generation, from time to time, even when it was in danger of oblivion and extinction. Mother Teresa's connections with Albania and Kosovo, were the result of circumstances and causalities that makes this figure closer to the average observer, who at an earlier time may have been skeptical of Mother Teresa's role and contribution to the articulation and just affirmation of the humane and freedom-loving causes of the people to whom it belonged. But now, in the light of new documents and evidence. Mother Teresa reappears before our eyes like a phoenix emerging silently from the mists of time, and beginning to illuminate the invisible sides of communication with some of the decision-making factors, as it was the case with US President Bill Clinton, who himself has confirmed that it was Mother Teresa the one that motivated him to undertake a humanitarian campaign of unprecedented proportions to save a people from the danger of physical extermination. A figure that nowadays continues to be the object of study and research, can not remain only as a framework within which develops national and global thinkings, but also as a name that honors many institutions, foundations, associations and infrastructural objects. In the book that we are presenting to the readers, some of these names related to Mother Teresa have been identified, which in the last instance is one more responsibility to advance the human and spiritual creed of Mother Teresa. The book embodies the first institutional commitment from her hometown Skopje, to present St. Mother Teresa as objectively as possible as her figure deserves to be treated. The title of the book itself deciphers the leitmotif that pervades two phases of Mother Teresa's life, which begins with the young Gonxhe from Skopje, and continues with St. Teresa of the whole world, a leitmotif that is related to the national identity and the
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