memories of my family

‚Kujtim nga vllau i juaj Sokol Miroci - vllau i imi Sali Miroci‘

1974

My grandpa got this from his brother Sokol, who was a victim of the massacre in Meja. Sokoli sent him a photo of himself during the time he was a marine in the Yugoslav Navy, where he served for 18 months.

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‚Kujtim e ki‘

1966

My great-grandpa sent a photo of himself to my grandparents, so that they have a memory of him.

Gjakova. Photos by Ludo Kuipers 1967

1. Ragip Qarkaxhija with his wife Zyrafa Spahiu, grandsons Memet Rama (Med) and Gëzim and neighbourhood boys Shkëlzen aand Vllezer pose at their home in Gjakova.

2. Zyrafa Spahiu Qarkaxhija spinning wool at home in Gjakova.

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Street view in Gjakova, western Kosovo

Street view in Gjakova, western Kosovo

Sokol Ramë Miroci

- my great uncle

03.06.1957, Junik - 27.04.1999, Meja.

He was one of the 377 victims of the massacre in Meja in 1999. His remains were found years later in the mass grave in Batajnica, Serbia.

Street view in Gjakova, western Kosovo

Street view in Gjakova, western Kosovo

THE DESCRIPTION OF SAINT TERESA OF CALCUTTA (Mother Teresa) Feast Day: September 5

"She is the United Nations. She is peace in the world." -Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, former Secretary-General of the United Nations

The foundress of the Missionaries of Charity (Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate), was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, on August 26, 1910 in Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (now Skopje, North Macedonia). Raised in a Christian family , she was fascinated by the lives of the saints, especially of the missionaries. She was the youngest child of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai). Her father, who was involved in Albanian-community politics in Ottoman Macedonia, died in 1919 when she was eight years old. Her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova.

In 1928 at the age of 18, she joined the missionary congregation of the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English with the intent of becoming a missionary; English was the language of instruction of the Sisters of Loreto in India, and was assigned to India. She made her profession on May 24, 1931, taking the religious name of Teresa, in honor of Thérèse de Lisieux, the patroness of missions, because a nun in the convent had already chosen that name, she opted for its Spanish spelling of Teresa. Teresa took her solemn vows on May 14, 1937 while she was a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta, taking the style of 'Mother' as part of Loreto custom. She served there for nearly twenty years and was appointed its headmistress in 1944.

After teaching for over 20 years in a Catholic school near Calcutta, she became increasingly disturbed by the surrounding poverty. The Bengal famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city, and the August 1946 Direct Action Day began a period of Muslim-Hindu violence.

On September 10, 1946, while travelling by train to the Loreto convent from Calcutta for her annual retreat, she experienced 'the call within the call,' meaning a strong urge to leave the convent and to live among the poorest of the poor. Replacing her traditional religious habit with a white cotton sari decorated with a blue border, she began her missionary work in the slums of Calcutta. Two years later in 1948, she began missionary work with the poor. Mother Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, spent several months in Patna to receive basic medical training at Holy Family Hospital and ventured into the slums. She founded a school in Motijhil, Calcutta, before she began tending to the poor and hungry. At the beginning of 1949, Mother Teresa was joined in her effort by a group of young women, and she laid the foundation for a new religious community helping the 'poorest among the poor'.

On October 7, 1950 after she received Vatican permission for the diocesan congregation, together with thirteen young women, she founded the Missionaries of Charity, whose mission was: 'to care for the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared, for throughout society.' In 1952, Mother Teresa opened her first hospice with help from Calcutta officials. She converted an abandoned Hindu temple into the Kalighat Home for the Dying, free for the poor, and renamed it Kalighat, the Home of the Pure Heart (Nirmal Hriday).

Those brought to the home received medical attention and the opportunity to die with dignity in accordance with their faith: Muslims were read the Quran, Hindus received water from the Ganges, and Catholics received extreme unction. At the height of the Siege of Beirut in 1982, Mother Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas. Accompanied by Red Cross workers, she travelled through the war zone to the hospital to evacuate the young patients.

Mother Teresa had a heart attack in Rome in 1983 while she was visiting Pope John Paul II. Following a second attack in 1989, she received a pacemaker. In 1991, after a bout of pneumonia in Mexico, she had additional heart problems. Although Mother Teresa offered to resign as head of the Missionaries of Charity, in a secret ballot the sisters of the congregation voted for her to stay, and she agreed to continue. But on March 13, 1997, she resigned as head of the Missionaries of Charity.

respected as a 'living saint,' she died in Calcutta, West Bengal, India at the age of 87. At the time of her death, the Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 sisters and an associated brotherhood of 300 members operating 610 missions in 123 countries. These included hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counselling programmes, orphanages and schools. The Missionaries of Charity were aided by co-workers numbering over one million by the 1990s.

She is beatified by St. John Paul II on October 19, 2003 and canonized a saint by Pope Francis on September 4, 2016.

She said for herself: 'By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus.'

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Street view in Gjakova, western Kosovo