Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta is one of the most admired people of all time. She has won every award imaginable, most notably the Nobel Prize for Peace. Like a lot of people who are greatly admired they might also have another side to them the public doesn’t see as is in the case of Teresa. The more research I did on Teresa, the more I found about her was in stark contrast to the holiest of women we know today. Monies were not used for the promised hospitals she was supposed to build, gross lack of medical equipment and poor sterilization of what equipment was used. Teresa’s own beliefs (more notably pro-life and disallowing the sanctions of divorce) perpetuated the demography of poor she fought to help her entire life. Teresa collected monies for her charity as early as the 1930’s. From the 1930’s until her death in 1997, no one knows the true total of monies she collected. Teresa and the recently deceased Pope John Paul were the only ones who were privy to this amount which was estimated in the hundreds of millions. In my portrait, I wanted to use the colors light blue and white to symbolize her order “Sisters of Calcutta”, and encrust most of it’s surface with pearls and sparkling light blue beads to greater give contrast to Teresa’s forced vow of “poverty.”