Mother Theresa Biography
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Mother Theresa dedicated every day of her adult life caring for “the dying, crippled, the mentally ill, and the unloved.” She fed and sheltered them, cleaned their wounds, but what is most important, is that she made them feel good, loved, and wanted.
Mother Teresa’s Life
Mother Teresa was born August 27, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu from Albanian parents: Nikolle and Drandafille Bojaxhiu. Her father was a well known contractor and her mother was a housewife, and She was the youngest of three children. Mother Teresa’s Family strongly believed in the Catholic faith. They prayed every evening and went to church almost everyday. It was her family’s generosity and care for the poor that made a great impact on Mother Teresa’s life. By the age of 12, she had made up her mind, she realized that her Calling in life was aiding the poor. At age 18, she decided to become a nun, and traveled to Dublin, Ireland, to join the Sisters of Loretto. After about a year in Ireland, she then left to join the Loretto convent in the Indian city of Darjeeling, where she spent 17 years teaching and then rose to the position of principal of St. Mary’s high school in Calcutta.
In 1946, Mother Teresa’s life was changed forever. While riding a train to the mountain town of Darjeeling to recover from suspected tuberculosis, she said that she received a calling from God “to serve among the poorest of the poor.” Less then a year later she received permission from the Catholic Church to leave her order and move to Calcutta’s slums to set up her first school. One of Mother Theresa’s former students “Sister Agnus” became Mother Teresa’s first follower. Others soon followed, and they rose to create their own order of nuns called the Missionaries of Charity. The order was founded on Oct. 7 1950, the feast of the Holy Rosary. To set herself with the poor she choose to wear a plain white Dress with a blue border and a cross pinned to her left shoulder. Their mission was to care for the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers; all those people who felt unwanted, unloved and uncared for throughout society.With the help of government officials, she converted a portion of an abandoned temple into “Kalighat Home for the Dying”, where even the poorest people would die with dignity. Soon after she opened up Nirmal Hriday (”Pure Heart”), another home for the dying, and Shanti Nagar (Town of Peace), a leper colony and later her first orphanage. Mother Teresa and her followers continued opening houses all over India caring for the poor, and making them feel wanted. But her Order’s work spread across the world after 1965, when Pope John Paul VI allowed Mother Theresa to globally expand her order.
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