Mother Theresa is monumental in most of the world’s heart.
It’s a nice gesture, but I’m pretty sure she would have wanted the Russian efforts and money put to better causes, and NOT a monument to her.
Just assuming, really.
It’s true, and it’s good of you to remind us, Celerity, that Mother Teresa did not seek or want wealth or honors for herself. She died as poor -— in terms of net personal possessions -— as some of the people she served.
On the other hand, she did accept the Nobel Prize, and airfars, and the offer of a platform on which to speak, because she wanted to call attention to Jesus Christ and to the Gospel of Love to which all human beings are called, by virtue of their own dignity as children of God.
The Gospel also speaks of God’s Kingdom as a great destiny in which the exalted will be humbled, and the humble exalted. When this happens, it is to God’s glory. So I think she wouldn’t mind this honor, as long as it can all be directed to the real Giver of evey good gift.