“I’d say she was a saint on Earth, and they finally put a halo on her.” Mel Kleinschmit, a volunteer at Christ the King Catholic Church in Las Vegas, 4925 S. Torrey Pines Drive, reflected on Mother Teresa’s life and her works Sunday afternoon, following her canonization at the Vatican.
After a calm, clear day, the night’s wind and thick dust turned Black Rock City into an otherworldly post-apocalyptic scenescape in Northern Nevada.
Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society’s most unwanted and for having shamed world leaders for the “crimes of poverty they themselves created.”
Scattered across Nevada, huge beehive-shaped stone structures mark a colorful period in the state’s past. The 30-foot-high charcoal ovens played a vital role in Nevada mining in the late 1800s.
