The Papal Artifacts’ Collection is primarily dedicated to artifacts connected to the papacy. Individual popes, their biographies and multiple items belonging to them, including first and second class relics, make up the majority of this Collection. But that isn’t all it is.
Father Kunst has a deep devotion to the saints as can be readily seen in viewing the Saints & Blesseds section of this site. We invite you to visit Papal History/Saints & Blesseds to view the many canonized and beatified men and women who make up this section of the Collection.
St. Mother Teresa is one of them.
Mother Teresa: A 1st Class Relic–Mother’s Hair 
Mother Teresa: A 1st Class Relic–Mother’s Hair (Back of Card) 
Mother Teresa: A 1st Class Relic
A 1st Class Relic of Mother Teresa
A Gift to Fr. Kunst from Bp. Robert Brom
Retired Bishop of San Diego, CA
Former Bishop of Duluth, MN
This first class relic of Mother Teresa (strands of her hair) was sent to me by Sister Nimala, the successor of Mother Teresa following Mother’s death in 1997.
She sent it, no doubt, because after Mother’s miraculous recovery from near death in 1992 here in San Diego I advised Sister Nimala to start saving Mother’s hair whenever she had a haircut toward developing relics.
+Robert H. Brom
Bishop of San Diego
July 10,1990 – September 18, 2013
The Papal Artifacts Collection has two letters written by Mother Teresa to Father Richard Kunst. One chides him for asking for her autograph but she still signs the letter. The other is in answer to a request for prayers during a time of discernment regarding his vocation. She offers both her promise of prayers and her advice. There is also a signed photograph of her and an additional letter donated to Papal Artifacts.
A third letter, featured below, to Miss Rita Schreiber was donated to the Collection and also contains the signature of Mother Teresa.
But above all be convinced of Jesus’ tender love for you in and through this present situation and no matter what its outcome is, listen to Jesus speak in your heart. — Words of Mother Teresa address to Richard Kunst.
Letter from Mother Teresa, 1990 
Letter From Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta to Father Richard Kunst, Dated 1995 
Letter From Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta to Father Richard Kunst, Dated 1995 (page 2)
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta 
Tickets to the October 19, 2003 Beatification of Mother Teresa, & the October 16, 2003 25th Anniversary of Pope John Paul II, with a Picture of the Pope & Mother Teresa 
St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
