I really admire the people who do their things with love and
passion, this one of the why I admire to Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu better known like
the Mother Teresa of Calcutta. She was born 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. 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. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and
started an open air school for slum children. 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.
On October 7 of 1950,
Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order,
"The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and
care for those people nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society
became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.
Mother Teresa died in 1997 and she was renowned blessed in 2003.
Her work had been recognized and acclaimed throughout the world and she received
a lot of awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971
and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding
in 1972. She also received the Balzan Prize in 1979 and the Templeton and
Magsaysay awards.
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