Mother Theresa

Mother Teresa (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnesë Gonxhe
Bojaxhiu was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship who
founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over
45 years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the
Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other
countries.

By the 1970s she was internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for
the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something
Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979
andd IIndia's
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highest
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humanitarian
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work. Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity continued to expand, and at the time
of her death it was operating 610 missions in 123 countries, including hospices and
homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis, soup kitchens,
children's and family counselling programs, orphanages, and schools.

Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title
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" If we really want
to love we must
learn how to
forgive."
Mother
Theresa -
Taken From a
Prayer
Written by St.
Francis of
A i i
Assisi
Blessed Mother Teresa expressed the option for the poor well when she said,
"Suffering today is because people are hoarding, not giving, not sharing. Jesus
made it very clear. Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to
me. Give a glass of water, you give it to me. Receive a little child, you receive
me. Clear."
Werner Horvath: "Belief and Beauty
1976, Mother Theresa
Swami Shantananda and
Mother Teresa
Pamela Duffy
Tribute to Mother Theresa is found at the Plaza de San Francisco, Cuba
 THEY HAVE THEIR DIGNITY
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They are hungry for you to know that they have their dignity, that they want to be treated as you are treated.
They are hungry for love.
Ritu Singh of Calcutta, India
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so she could see over the
podium when she addressed a
group
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spectators in Washington, D.C.
in the late 1980's
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Teresa's
s Home for the Dying in Calcutta
Mother Theresa visits South Carolina
 It was on a train in 1946 to India's mountains,
where she hoped the fresh air would cure her
suspectedt d ttuberculosis,
b l i th thatt M
Mother
th T Teresa
suddenly experienced an overwhelming
inspiration to change her life's work. Her new
mission would be ``to serve the p poorest of the
poor,'' she later recalled. For the next half-
century, until her death Friday at 87, the saintly
nun aided the world's outcasts and
unfortunates once saying she would forsake
unfortunates,
the gates of Heaven to work in hells on earth.

She was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, the capital
of modern-day Macedonia, the youngest of three children of an
Albanian builder. By 19, she had joined the Loretto order of nuns,
took the name Sister Teresa in honor of Saint Teresa of Lisieux, the
patroness
t off missionaries,
i i i and
dbbegan tteaching
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Calcutta,
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India. Ensconced there in her private Catholic high school, Teresa
couldn't look away from the destitution and disease surrounding her
Daniel DeNapoli
Mother Theresa, 2004, white Carrara marble
Christian Lemmerz
Peoria, IL, USA
Mother Teresa receives the
Nobel Prize from John
Sanness, Chairman of
Norway's Nobel Committee
in Oslo in this 1979 file
photo.
Mother Teresa
Teresa, left
left,
walks with Diana,
Princess of Wales,
after receiving a
visit from her June
Mother Teresa is 18, 1997, in New
seen in this August York
1993 file photo
 Mother
M th Teresa
T lies
li beside
b id
her successor as Superior
General of the Missionaries
of Charity, Sister Nirmala,
wearingg spectacles
p second
from right, and other
Catholic nuns in Calcutta
The condition of 85-year-old
early morning Saturday,
Nobel laureate Mother Teresa,
September 6, 1997.
shown in London in this July
1993 photo, worsened in
Calcutta Friday, Aug. 23, 1996, Mother Teresa gestures after
as doctors reversed a decision receiving a special Award for
to remove her respirator a day Excellence from the Indo-
after her heart stopped beating American Society at the
for nearly a minute during a headquarters of the
fever. Doctors revived her with Missionaries of Charity in
electric shocks. Calcutta Sunday, March 16,
1997.
Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien's
wife, Aline Chretien, touches Mother
Teresa's casket during her funeral mass
in the Netaji Indoor Stadium in Calcutta,
Saturday Sept.
Saturday, Sept 13,
13 1997.
1997 Mother Teresa
was later taken to Mother House for
burial.
India's Sonia Gandhi pays her respects
to Mother Teresa while India
India's
s President
K. R. Narayanan watches from behind
after the funeral service in Netaji Indoor
Stadium, Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997
 Sisters of the Missionaries of
Ch it pray during
Charity d i the th
funeral mass for Mother
Teresa, the founder of their
order, in the Netagi Indoor
Stadium in Calcutta, Saturday,
y
Sept. 13, 1997. Mother Teresa
died on Sept. 5.

India's President K. R. Narayanan touches

Mother Teresa
Teresa'ss hands after her funeral
service in Netaji Indoor Stadium, Saturday,
Sept. 13, 1997.
 The body of Mother Teresa lies in its
coffin as it begins its final journey during
the funeral procession in Calcutta
Mourners lean over fences to catch a glimpse
Saturday
Satu day Sept.
Sept 13,
3, 1997,
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age
off Mother
M th Teresa
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taken from television.
Indian military officers from Saint Thomas'
Church to a gun carriage in Calcutta,
Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997. The gun carriage
took her remains to the Netaji j Indoor Stadium
for a funeral mass.
 Mother Teresa in her open casket is
carried by Indian military officers from
Saint Thomas' Church to a gun carriage
in Calcutta, Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997. The
gun carriage took her remains to the
Netaji Indoor Stadium for a funeral mass.

Mourners line the streets as Mother

Teresa's open casket is transported by
Indian military gun carriage in Calcutta,
Saturday,
Satu day, Sept
Sept. 13,
3, 1997.
99 Thee gu
gun ca
carriage
age
took her remains to the Netaji Indoor
Stadium for a funeral mass and will later
proceed to Mother House for burial.
 Love
I have found the paradox that if I love until
it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only
more love
love.

Mother Theresa