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Come and See is written and illustrated by Linda Schaefer and it is about Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa was a devout Catholic Nun who was led to by God to serve Him in India. She started the Missionaries of Charity Organization through which she served God in comforting and caring for the needy, the sick, the poor, the lepers, and the dying.

"'Come and See is more than a phrase used by Mother Teresa - it is a challenge to enter a world that can be harsh, frightening, painful, disappointing, and seemingly never ending- and at the same time full of joy and hope.'" states Linda Schaefer. Mother Teresa not only started a Home for the dying within twenty-four hours where a time of devotions is also held, but she also lifted up an orphanage, and the Gandhiji Prem Nivas Leprosy Center in 1958. She also created villages where the lepers could live and work in peace be self-sufficient and raise their own food.

Though Mother Teresa died in 1997 at the age of 87, the Missionaries of Charity continues due to the devotion of the nuns Mother Teresa trained in Calcutta, India. Today the Missionaries of Charity organization is not only in Calcutta, India but all over the world. Through, Linda Schaefer's illustrations you can see the agony, hunger, as well as the peace the people receive from Mother Teresa and the nuns, love and compassion that is poured out to them. You can also see and read pages written by Mother Teresa from her daily journal. This book helps you to appreciate the world you have and to see that even the lowest of the low are not forgotten by God. It is Fiction and for 12 years old and older.

Linda Schaefer is a photographer by trade, and an artist by intuition is recognized by magazines and newspapers alike. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Catholic Digest, Time and Newsweek, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Parade Magazine, Paris Match, GQ, the Los Angeles Times, and Stern to name a few. Her career started as a journalist for CNN in 1985, but she soon found that she couldn't’t loose her first love – still photography. While doing freelance for the Associated Press she decided this would be her full - time occupation. But her passion for documentary work, along with the fact that she had lived in Brazil during her childhood, led her to explore and photograph the Amazon.

In June of 1995, Linda Schaefer had her first contact with Mother Teresa, who was visiting Atlanta. Schaefer Traveled to Calcutta several months after meeting Mother Teresa, and had the rare opportunity to document the work of the Missionaries of Charity. Thousands of photographs later, select images of that experience were selected for inclusion in this book.

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