Teresa Of Calcutta
Fashion design, which always wore Saint Teresa of Calcutta — a white Sari with blue trim is registered as a trademark. About it reports The Guardian citing a claim by former lawyer nuns Biswajit Sarkar.
According to the lawyer, he filed an application for registration in 2013 in order to protect the name of the Holy from improper or commercial use. The trademark was registered in last year, but officially presented only now.
Says Sarkar, now he had the opportunity to prosecute all, including the employees of charity organizations using it. “There are many such organisations, for example primary schools, based on a supposedly followers of mother Teresa, but these missionaries do not have any relation to it”, — the lawyer explained.
According to him, the nuns of the congregation of the “Sisters missionaries of love”, Saint Therese was founded almost 70 years ago, he objected to legal protection. “They say: “someday people will realize that they are doing wrong”,” — said the lawyer. However, he believes that now in the legal field to defend the interests of the nuns.
The name of mother Theresa in the world — Agnes Gange, Boagiu. She was a Catholic nun and the founder of women’s monastic community “Sisters missionaries of love”, whose mission was to care for the homeless and the sick. Died on 88-m to year of life, and a few years later was canonized by the Catholic Church beatified. However, some journalists were critical of her activities, noting that, despite the availability of funds, she founded shelters for the needy is not provided necessary medical care. Mother Teresa of Calcutta canonized by the Roman Catholic Church 4 September 2016.