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San Diego, CA (San Diego Co.) San Diego Union (Cir. D. 217,089) (Cir. S. 341,840) JUN 6 198

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because she wanted no better accommodations than the poor Mother Teresa said her lifelong commitment to helping the poorest of the poor began 42 years ago when she received a call to leave her convent in Calcutta. She began serving the destitute because in doing so, she said, one Since then, Mother Teresa established the Missionaries of Charity, a small group of sisters, brothers, priests and volunteers providing love and impoverished and homeless in 71 countries throughout the The world's most famous nwi won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and was presented with an honorary doctorate of human letters from USD. Mother Teresa explained See NOBEL Page 2, people she serves. directly serves God. care to thousands of sick, world.

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burch, l w b to commend The Moth r Tere a' v1S1t on May 31. Many of her charities are known to God alone. In reporting her activities there are lacunae: One, the establish- ment of leper a ·ylums. Mother Tere- sa and her Mi ionaries of Charity have cstabli hed over 30 leper homes in India. I do not know if she had set up the same in other countries. A leper's lot in India is a sad one. When it is discovered that a member of a family has contracted leprosy, he or she is ordered to pack personal belongings. the ord.:r is given to leave and never to come back. Mother Teresa and her misswnaries give them a warm reception and take them into their hearts. Mother Teresa and her co-workers have had con iderable success in bringing this disease into remission through the u e of the latest her - pies. Dignity I thus restored to the poor lepers and they are enabled to once again become productive mem- bers of . ·ietv. During World War II, I served as a chaplain with the Tropic Lightning 25th Infantry Division. In 1944, we trained for nine months on the Island of New Caledonia in preparation for . the invasion of the Island of Luzon. The facility was staffed and main- tained by the French sisters of St. Paul of Chartres. Most of the pa- tients were black. They numbered about 150. It was a pitiful sight to see firsthand the ravages of this horren• dous disea e-stump hands and stump feet. It is noteworthy that Mother Tere- sa and her missionaries do not solicit funds. They rely strictly on provi- dence. n Diego Union for its coverage of

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F.sr. 1888 'Bloom where you are planted' 'J£1t)611a physician carries on Mother Teresa's work locally B.l JEANNE BEACH EIGNER Light Staff Writer At first, it seems that Teresa's Missionaries of Chari- ty came in February to

establish the order in Tijuana to help that city's eldery poor and that Mother Teresa made her latest visit to San Diego. "Circumstances have given us different lives," said Figueredo, sitting in the com- fortable living room of her home. But Mother, as she calls Mother Teresa, can't do all of the work there is to do herself, "and we have to work in our own environment. Bloom where you are planted," she said cheerfully. "And there is a lot of op- portunity to serve right here in La Jolla, in San Diego and right next door in Tijuana. Oh; the opportunity here is great." Figueredo said she never wanted to be a religious, yet when she read about Mother Teresa's work in the 1950s, she was immediately attracted. She sent off a small contribu- t10n and a letter. She was sur- pnsed to hear later that

Mother Teresa and a suc- cessful surgeon, living in a sunny two-story home within the sound of La Jolla's surf, would have little in common. But these two disparate lives are linked by singular devotion to the service of others. Born in Albania, now work- ing in the slums of Calcutta, Mother Teresa lives with "the poorest of the poor," and like them, has no possessions. Over her rough white colton habit is a worn blue cardigan, on her feet are sandals made by lepers. On her visit last weekend to San Diego she was greeted with the adulation and excite- ment usually reserved for rock stars or campaigning politi- cians, yet she disavows the material trappings of the world and rejoices not in her fame, but that her mission is shared. Dr. Anita Figueredo lives in

Mother Teresa prays at University of San Diego.

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Mother l eresa had read the letter to her nuns, and surpris- ed again that Mother Teresa wrote back. "I've always been a mis- s10nary at heart, and I felt th~t she was domg the work I should be domg. Where r was doing some of that work, I was doing it in comfort and with all the conveniences 1m-

aginable," Figueredo recalled. But the things Figueredo has accom'plished and the efforts she ha, contributed are remarkable. Born in Costa Rica, she attended medical school and then became the first woman resident at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She married physician William

one of the most affluent suburbs of the United States. She is a successful physician, a surgical oncologist and the mother of a large family. Yet she has allied herself with the causes of Mother Teresa and the faith they share. It is large- ly through Figuered9's efforts that four nuns from Mother

Doyle and they moved to La Jolla in 1947. She has served on the La Jolla Town Council, has been a constant force with the Co- Workers of the Missionaries of Charity (as a regional vice chairwoman and an official "link") and with the Casa de los Pobres, the center hat Please see FIGUE DO, A2

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practice. "She was a fabulous role :,,C model." said her daughter, Dr. Sarita Eastman, the eldest of nine Doyle children. Figueredo seems to be the only one not impressed by her

years of work have not been exactly a walk in the park, she laughed. "Oh, but it's been a marvelous walk in the park! I'd get bored not doing anything that was of service. I'm not the type for cruises or bridge or golf. The thing I en- joy most is doing something of service." "I'm the happiest woman in the world and I wouldn't trade my life for anything. I am very joyful. I've got all this and heaven, too," she said with a smile.

Continued from Al~'l ½°7 serves 2,000 meals a diij to the For many years she worked one day a week at a Tijuana clinic and organized donations of medicines; in 1980 she was a founder of Friends of the Poor, an foundation that "funnels" donations to needy recipients. She has been recognized by the Pope and civic organizations for her ef- forts. At 71, she kec;ps up her needy in Tijuana.

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"We all think we are the ones running things, that we're in control. But, as Mother Teresa says, we are the stub of pencil with which God writes." That attitude and her faith in God "do impart acer- tain serenity," she said. To a comment that all the