Nuns of Missionaries of Charity at a prayer service for Sr. Gertrude MC at Mother House on Sunday. Sister Gertrude, the second woman to join Mother Teresa in starting the Missionaries of Charity, passed away in the morning.

Born on March 8, 1929, Sr. Gertrude was a doctor. She was Mother Teresa’s student at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta in the 1940s. Mother Teresa was then the headmistress and in-charge of the boarders at the school.

Inspired by Mother, Sr. Gertrude spent her life serving the poor.

She was by Mother’s side when she passed away at Mother House in September 1997. “We became truly mother and daughter, more than a sister or a doctor,” Sr. Gertrude had written about her relationship with Mother Teresa.

source: http://www.telegraphindia.com / The Telegraph, Calcutta / Front Page> Calcutta> Story / Monday – December 07th, 2015