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Willem VS
September 22, 2026
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The Saint Paul Cathedral is a modern Catholic cathedral that deliberately breaks with the classic image of a church. The bright, angular design symbolizes a new chapter for the Catholic …
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Christine 🚶♀️ 📷 🌏
May 24, 2025
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The cathedral was built at the end of 2001 and is one of the largest and newest cathedrals in Tirana. Its name commemorates the Apostle Paul, the first evangelist of the Albanian lands in 52 AD. In a letter addressed to the Romans, Saint Paul declares that he brought the holy word from Jerusalem and its surroundings to Illyria. Inside the cathedral, there is a monument to Mother Teresa and that of Pope John Paul II.
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JakobusPilger
December 10, 2025
Hiking
In the capital of Albania, the birthplace of Mother Teresa, born in Skopje (now North Macedonia) in 1910, the founder of the Missionaries of Charity, who worked for many years in India, is being honored. Mother Teresa—awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, who died in 1997, and canonized in 2016—once described herself succinctly:
"By birth I am Albanian, by nationality Indian; I am a Catholic sister. Through my mission I belong to the whole world, but my heart belongs only to Jesus."
The linked photo shows her as many will have known her from the media:
=> de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutter_Teresa#/media/Datei:MotherTeresa_094.jpg
"By birth I am Albanian, by nationality Indian; I am a Catholic sister. Through my mission I belong to the whole world, but my heart belongs only to Jesus."
The linked photo shows her as many will have known her from the media:
=> de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutter_Teresa#/media/Datei:MotherTeresa_094.jpg
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