Summary:
A biography of Mother Teresa (1910-1997), who created and operated The Missionaries of Charity to help the poor of Calcutta, India. Under Mother Teresa's direction, the order became one of the most effective in the Catholic church.
On August 27, 1910, a child named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born at Skopje, Macedonia. Agnes was also known as the famous Mother Teresa. Throughout her life, she had helped others and lived a poor life from the time when she was merely an adolescent, to when she was old and ready to go to God in heaven. Her life was dedicated to caring for well-being of others & helping those in need of love & affection.
When she was just at the age of twelve, she felt the call of God & knew that she had to be a missionary to spread Jesus' love. When she was eighteen, she left her guardian home in Skopje & joined the Sisters of Loreto. Sisters of Loreto is an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. She was sent to India after a few months of training in Dublin & took her initial vows as a nun on May 24, 1931. Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta from 1931 to 1948. She had caught glimpses of the poverty & suffering of others outside of the convent and she was so moved that she got permission from authority to leave the convent school & to devote herself to working with the poorest of the poor in Calcutta. She had no money, but she started a school for the poor children. She was later on joined by voluntary helpers & people helped with financial support. That helped her to carry on with her work.
Towards the middle & end of her life, Mother Teresa had gotten permission from the Holy See to start her own order, The Missionaries of Charity. Their main job was to give love & care to people that had no one to look after them. By 1965, the Society had become International Religious Family because of a decree issued by Pope Paul VI. Now, The Society of Missionaries is spread throughout the entire world, providing effective help for the poor living in poverty. Because of Mother Teresa's order, there is now help for the most needy when there are floods, epidemics, and famine, and if refugees are in dire need of help.
The Missionaries of Charity are taken care of and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on the date of March 29, 1969. Then, by the 1990's, there were more than one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries all over the world. The lay Missionaries of Charity also try to follow Mother Teresa's spirit & attitude with their own families. Everywhere in the world, Mother Teresa's work has been seen and awarded & she was given many awards for her selfless & loving acts. Pope John XXIII awarded Mother Teresa the Peace Prize in the year of 1971. Also, she was awarded the Nehru Prize because of her promotion of international peace and understanding in the year of 1972. Sadly, Mother Teresa had died on September 5, 1997 in her convent in India when she was at the age of 87.
All in all, Mother Teresa was a selfless, living saint that had changed the lives of millions of people throughout the world. She had effected the lives of the poor, Catholics, & people like herself, that wanted to help others. She had done many great things from becoming a nun to creating one of the most effective orders in Catholic history.
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