Mother Teresa

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Through out the women known as Mother Teresa’s life she had accomplished a great many tasks. Mother Teresa had done good works and heroic virtues in her lifetime. Mother Teresa’s had accomplished many deeds through out her religious order and her “Way of Love”. This is a way of not pleasing yourself but to give yourself to God and to be used by him in a very special way, a way of helping people. (The “Way of Love” is also a poem).

Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now called Macedonia) in 1910. Mother Teresa’s original home was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhio. Mother Teresa was only 12 years old when she first knew she had a vocation to the poor but it wasn’t until much later in 1928 when she suddenly decided to become a nun and traveled to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loredo a religious order founded in the seventeenth century. After studying at the convent for less than a year, she left to join the Loredo convent in the city of Darjeeling in India. On May 24th, 1931, she took the name of name of “Teresa” in honor of St. Teresa of Avila a sixteenth century Spanish nun.

In 1929 Mother Teresa was teaching at a catholic high school in Calcutta the city was filled with beggars, lepers, and the homeless and on wanted babies were left to die in garbage bins. One day in 1946 Mother Teresa felt the need to leave her job at St. Mary catholic school to care for the needy in Calcutta.

Mother Teresa began her work in 1948 by studying nursing for three months with the American Medical Missionaries in India, she there returned Calcutta to found the Missionaries of Charity and the Kalighat Home for the dying. Mother Teresa would gather dying Indians off the streets and care for them during the days before they died.

In the mid 1950’s, Mother Teresa began to help victims of leprosy. She established a leper colony called Shanti Nagar (town of Peace). In 1965 the Pope authorized Mother Teresa to...