Mother of Poor and Dying (MOTHER TERESA)


MOTHER TERESA

(26 Aug. 1910 - 05Sep.1997)


Born         : 26 August 1910 Skopje North Macedonia

Died                : 05 September 1997 ,Kolkata

Full Name.    : Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu

Nationality.   : Ottoman, Yugoslavian, Indian

Awards

  • Nobel Peace Prize, 
  • Bharat Ratan, 
  • Order of the Smile, 
  • Golden Honour of the Nation,

Duing her lifetime mother Teresa became known worldwide for her kindness and her charitable work. Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhou in Albany (now in Macedonia) in 1910. when she was 18 years old, she decided to become a nun in the Roman's Catholic Church.  She took vows promising to live a simple life and not to marry, and she became Sister Teresa.


The Institute had charity mission in India, and soon Sister Teresa sailed to the country to work as a teacher. Over the next 17 years, she taught in two schools in India,  one of which was in Calcutta (now Kolkata ) .She was firsthand the poverty and suffering of the people's. She often said that she was inspired to make two important decisions in her life. One was to become a nun, and in 1946 the other was two devote her life to helping the sick and poor.


As soon as her studies in nursing were finished, she began working with the people living in Calcutta's slums. She became an Indian citizen. And she became mother Teresa when she founded the Missionaries of Charity. This was a new order of Roman Catholic  nuns who wanted to help the sick specially dying and poor.


Under Mother Teresa guidance, the Missionaries of Charity open centers all over the world. In the center's anyone could receive care,no matter what there religion. In 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel prize for peace. Soon after her death, in1997, The Roman Catholic Church began the process to have Mother Teresa declared a saint


                           DID YOU KNOW

   

   When Mother Teresa  founded her religious order,the Missionary of Charity, her Indian nuns adopted sari as their habbit, or official dress. The sari is a garment worn by most  women's of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.


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