mother teresa

1. Mother Teresa Karla Cruz, Sofía Villalobos

2. Mother Teresa was born Agnes GonxhaBojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. • Her family was of Albanian descent. • At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. • At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. • After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun.

3. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. • Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. • This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.

4. Teresa received Vatican permission on 7 October 1950 to start the diocesan congregation that would become the Missionaries of Charity. • Its mission was to care for: (in her own words) "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone." • In the beginning of 1949 she was joined in her effort by a group of young women and laid the foundations to create a new religious community helping the "poorest among the poor".

5. Mother Teresa founded the organization of the Missionaries of Charity in India . • This institution went to had more than four thousand members and followers, and they served in 25 countries. • Mother Teresa was a respected in all aspects: political, social and religious, because she was a great leader. • The impressive , well all is that the organization of Mother Teresa of Calcutta is a voluntary type of organization where leadership is demonstrated in its purest form.

6. Mother Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, spent a few months in Patna to receive a basic medical training in the Holy Family Hospital and then ventured out into the slums. • Her efforts quickly caught the attention of Indian officials, including the prime minister, who expressed his appreciation.

7. Mother Teresa travelled to assist and minister to the hungry in Ethiopia, radiation victims at Chernobyl, and earthquake victims in Armenia. • In 1991, Mother Teresa returned for the first time to her homeland and opened a Missionaries of Charity Brothers home in Tirana, Albania.

8. By 1996, Mother Teresa was operating 517 missions in more than 100 countries. • Over the years, Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands serving the "poorest of the poor" in 450 centres around the world.

9. The first Missionaries of Charity home in the United States was established in the South Bronx, New York; by 1984 the congregation operated 19 establishments throughout the country. • Mother Teresa was fluent in five languages: Bengali, Albanian, Serbian, English, and Hindi.

10. In the 1970s it was known internationally and had acquired a reputation for caring person and advocate for the poor and defenseless. • Also because of the book Something Beautiful for God ,Malcolm Muggeridgeby her.