“Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” Mother Teresa was the type of lady who always had a smile on her face and she would never let anything ruin her mood. Mother Teresa was a “saint” in Calcutta. Mother Teresa, who’s native name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, wasn’t always the person who helped others. She lived a different lifestyle before she became such a saint. Keep in mind, Calcutta was not particularly the best place to live at the time of Mother
to join the Irish Loreto order, whose Sisters ran a mission in Calcutta, India. Mother Teresa’s first assignment was teaching high school girls in Calcutta from 1929 to 1946. There she taught geography at the St. Mary’s High School. For some years, she was a principal of the school and was also in charge of the Daughters of St. Anne, the Indian religious order attached to the Loreto Sisters. By December 1, 1928 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu had chosen the name of Sister Mary Teresa of the Child Christ after
age of 12, Agnes decided to follow in her mother's footsteps and help the poor. When she was eighteen Agnes made the decision to join the Sisters of Loreto and left for their mission in Calcutta. Upon joining the sisterhood Agnes chose the name "Sister Teresa", after Saint Teresa of Lisbeaux, the patroness of missionaries. It was there in Calcutta that Sister Teresa devoted her life to God and later took on the title of "Mother Teresa". Her devotion changed countless lives of the people in India
every day in May and assisted the service for the Holy Virgin."1 She really enjoyed going to church because she loved to read, pray and sing. Agnes made a very difficult decision at the age of eighteen that changed her life. She decided to join the Sisters of Loretto, which was a community of Irish nuns with a mission in the Archdices of Calcutta. In 1928 Mother Teresa went to India and began to teach at a convent school in Calcutta. She taught there for many years and even served as the principal
income from her father’s salary, her family quickly plummeted, and she ended up on the streets, and begged for food and materials. Sh ehad created a group called the Missionary of CharityBy 1997, the 13 member Congregation had grown up to 4,000 sisters in this group. Mother Teresa has also done many miracles. In 2002, the Victim had seen a miracle done by Mother Teresa, it involved an Indian woman named Monica Bersa, who said she was cured of an abdominal tumor because of Mother Teresa’s treating
Mother Teresa, formally known by the Catholic church as Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was born on August 26th, 1910, and lived until September 5th, 1997, dying at the age of eighty-seven. Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian- Indian, born in Skopje, now known as the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta lived in Skopje for eighteen years before moving to Ireland and then India, where she spent the majority of her life. Mother Teresa was the child of the
Trisha Yanduru Mrs.Halpin English 8H, Period 1 October 10, 2017 The Story of Mother Teresa Dressed in a plain white and blue sari, Mother Teresa the savior of hundreds of children in Calcutta is honored for her kind heart and acts. She is known for helping out the poor children living on the streets of Calcutta, India. Seeing these children suffer made her uncomfortable so she decided to open up centers for them. Mother Teresa experienced a "call within a call" while she was surrounded by a slum
through the 1990s, despite increasing health problems, Mother Teresa worked continuously, opening new houses, and service to the poor and disaster-stricken. New communities were founded in South Africa, Albania, Cuba, and war-torn Iraq. By 1997, the Sisters numbered nearly 4,000 members, and were established in almost 600 foundations in 123 countries of the world. “on a gun carriage that had also borne the bodies of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru - through the streets of Calcutta. Presidents
city politics (Mother, Biography [1]). Lewis 2 In primary or elementary school Mother Teresa went to a local school run by nuns and in secondary or high school she went to a state run school. After high school at age eighteen she joined the Loreto Sisters of Dublin in Ireland. At the convent she took the name Mary Teresa and later become Mother Teresa (Mother Biography [1]). In Dublin she started training to be a nun the continued and finished in Darjeeling, India. In 1928 Mother Teresa took her first
In the 1980’s, Mother Teresa continued to be an advocate for those in need and through her deteriorating health, still helping poor people around the globe. By the time of her death in 1997, there were over four thousand missionary of charity sisters in six hundred and ten centers in one hundred and twenty three countries around the world who continue to help people every day.
others. She speaks of going out into the streets and gathering the poor, the diseased and the drunks and of bringing them in and providing food, shelter and an opportunity to get clean. Many of these people would die when they were in the care of the sisters. One individual who was brought in stated “I have lived like an animal in the streets. I am gong to die like an angel, surrounded by love and care” (Mother Teresa, 28). This is w...
India. Over the following twenty years, Mother Teresa served at St. Mary’s High School and led ‘The Daughter’s of St. Anne,’ the Indian order of Loreto Sisters. Then in 1946, She requested and received permission, to leave the cloister and work in the slums of Calcutta. In 1948, Mother Teresa traveled to Patna to the ‘American Medical Missionary Sisters,’ where she received three months of intensive nursing training. Later she returned to Calcutta, to serve the poorest of the poor, gradually sev...
Vilayet (now known as Skopje, Republic of Macedonia), under the name Agness Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She lived her childhood impoverished, especially after the death of her father when she was only eight years old. Her mother was left to raise Teresa and her sisters in a life of poverty. According to Teresa, her mother’s care
world. By the age 12, she had become convinced that she should commit herself to a religious life. Saint Teresa left home at the age of 18 to pursue her dream of doing missionary work, and joined the Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary, known as the Sisters of Loreto. On May 24, 1931, she took her first religious vows as a nun; at that time She went around the world helping those in need, and created Missionaries to Charity. This group runs homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis
to Mother Teresa, born “Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 27, 1910 in a Macedonian town of Skopje. To a middle class business family. Her parents baptized Agnes as a Christian. She was the youngest of the three. There were two other siblings’ older sister Aga, her older brother Lazar, was two years old”. () Here family were very religious and attended the church many times a week, her father was extremely involved in the local church as well as in city politics as a vocal proponent of Albanian independence
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