Mother Teresa prays at St. Rita's Roman Catholic Church in the South Bronx, her first U.S. visit as a Nobel Peace laureate, August 7, 1980. "Let us thank God for our people, the poor people," she said at a newly opened soup kitchen there, which she blessed. "They have given us much more than we have given to them. Let us continue to love God in the poor." Her stay was largely kept private, reported The Times. " 'We didn't tell anybody,' said Sister Priscilla, who is in charge of the New York convent. 'We wanted to keep her for ourselves.'"