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MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA |
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August 27, 1910 — September 5, 1997
“In this life we cannot do great things. We can do only small things with great love.” |
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Born in Skopje, Macedonia, Agnes Gonxha was the youngest child of Nikalle and Drandafille Bojaxhiu. By age twelve, influenced by her family’s generosity and care for the poor and less fortunate, Agnes realized her vocation was to aid the poor. At age eighteen she joined the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin and later spent seventeen years teaching high school in India. On September 10, 1946, while traveling by train to Darjeeling, Mother Teresa’s life was changed forever. It was then that she received a calling from God to serve among the poorest of the poor. Less than a year later she set up her first school in the Calcutta slums. On October 7, 1950. with papal approval, a religious order of nuns, the Missionaries of Charity,, was founded by Mother Teresa. In 1965 Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa’s request to globally expand her order. Today the Missionaries of Charity have 570 missions around the world comprising 4000 nuns, a brotherhood of 300 members and over 100,000 volunteers operating homes for AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis patients; soup kitchens, orphanages, schools and counseling programs. In 1971 Pope Paul VI awarded the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize to Mother Teresa, and in 1972 she received the 3awaharlel Nehru Award for International Understanding. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Mother Teresa in 1979. In 1985 President Reagan presented Mother Teresa with the U.S. Medal of Freedom. Mother Teresa died in 1997 at age 87. Her beatification was announced by John Paul II on October 20, 2003. |
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