JENKINS, Ky. (AP, posted Sept. 5, 2016) — Dina Branham remembers vividly the day when Mother Teresa came to visit her disabled daughter, Sabrina.

"She got her up and prayed for her," Branham said. "She picked her up in her arms."

Sabrina Branham, now 43, has Down Syndrome and does not speak. Her mother, 83, takes care of her in the home they share on a narrow, winding road in the Eastern Kentucky mountains.

Decades later, nuns from the order Mother Teresa established, the Missionaries of Charity, are still paying them regular visits.

Mother Teresa visited Eastern Kentucky in 1982, in recogniti...