NEW DELHI: Sister Nirmala, the successor of Mother Teresa died at 81 in India.
Church officials said that Joshi had been suffering from heart problems and her heath was falling day by day. The officials said that her body has been placed in St John’s church where some 60 nuns were singing and praying on Tuesday to celebrate her life.
“Sister Nirmala carried forward Mother Teresa’s legacy of compassion, gentleness, service to the poorest of the poor and holiness of life,” D’Souza said.
Six months before Mother Teresa’s death in 1997, Sister Nirmala took over as head of the order of nuns that the Nobel Peace Prize winner founded in Kolkata 65 years ago.
