Mother Teresa was a great 20th-century saint in India. She could be seen ministering to the poor on television. Mother was born on August 26, 1910, and died September 5, 1997. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. She was born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, and she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. When she was 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her work with the poor. There were many of them in India. Did you get to see her on television?
Mother Teresa Biography
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a congregation that was dedicated to serving “the poorest of the poor” in the slums of Calcutta, India. Over the decades, the congregation grew to operate in over 133 countries, as of 2012, with more than 4,500 nuns managing homes for those dying from HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis, as well as running soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, orphanages, and schools.
Mother Teresa received several honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Her life and work have inspired books, documentaries, and films. Her 1992 authorized biography was written by Navin Chawla. On 6 September 6 2017, she was named a co-patron of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta with St Francis Xavier.
By 12 years of age, Mother Teresa thought she should live a religious life. Mother arrived in India in 1929 and began her novitiate in Darjeeling, in the lower Himalayas. She learned Bengali and taught at St. Teresa’s School near her convent. She took her first religious vows on May 24, 1931. She chose to be named after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries.
On September 10, 1946, Mother Teresa experienced what she later described as “the call within the call” when she travelled by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for a retreat. “I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith.” Joseph Langford, MC, founder of her congregation of priests, the Missionaries of Charity Fathers, later wrote, “Though no one knew it at the time, Sister Teresa had just become Mother Teresa.’ She began her work with the poor in 1948.
In 1952, she opened her first hospice with help from Calcutta officials. She converted an abandoned Hindu temple into the Kalighat Home for the Dying, free for the poor. She began to be noticed by Indian government officials, including the Prime Minister. The congregation attracted recruits and donations, and by the 1960s, it had opened hospices, orphanages, and leper houses throughout India. Mother Teresa expanded the congregation abroad, opening a house in Venezuela, Italy, Tanzania, and Austria in 1968. In the 1970s, the congregation opened houses and foundations in the United States and dozens of countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.
By 1997, the 13-member congregation had grown to more than 4,000 sisters who managed orphanages, AIDS hospices, and charity centres worldwide. By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity numbered about 450 brothers and 5,000 sisters worldwide, operating 600 missions, schools, and shelters in 120 countries.
She had a heart attack in Rome in 1983 while she was visiting Pope John Paul II. She had a second heart attack in 1989, and she got a pacemaker. In 1991, she got pneumonia, and she had additional heart problems. In April 1996, she fell and broke her collarbone. Also in 1996, she had malaria and heart failure. On March 13, 1997, Mother Teresa resigned as head of the Missionaries of Charity. She died on September 5th, and she was canonized in 2016.
Conclusion
Mother Teresa was a fantastic modern saint. She served to poorest of the poor in Calcutta, India. She was so modern that she was on television. It is said that good things come in small packages; that was the case with this saint. She received several accolades during her life, including the Nobel Peace Prize.
