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◾️Mother Teresa is known and celebrated for devoting her life to charity and service to others.
🔶More about her life:
- Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910.
- She studied in a convent and at the age of 12, she took part in her first pilgrimage to the shrine of Letnice.
- At the age of 18, Mother Teresa left home to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin.
- 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.
- 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.
- While teaching poor children in Calcutta, she did not have any supplies or equipment. She helped children read and write by writing in the dirt with wooden sticks.
- On October 7, 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 persons nobody was prepared to look after.
- She brokered a temporary cease fire between Israel and Palestine to rescue 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital.
- She travelled through the war zone to the destroyed hospital to evacuate the young patients.
Honorary Achievements
- Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, however, she refused to take the Nobel honour banquet and requested that the $192,000 prize money be used to help the poor in India.
- She received many awards including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972).
- She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.
- A special Rs 5 coin was also released by the government of India to commemorate the birth centenary of Mother Teresa.
🔶More about her life:
- Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910.
- She studied in a convent and at the age of 12, she took part in her first pilgrimage to the shrine of Letnice.
- At the age of 18, Mother Teresa left home to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin.
- 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.
- 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.
- While teaching poor children in Calcutta, she did not have any supplies or equipment. She helped children read and write by writing in the dirt with wooden sticks.
- On October 7, 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 persons nobody was prepared to look after.
- She brokered a temporary cease fire between Israel and Palestine to rescue 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital.
- She travelled through the war zone to the destroyed hospital to evacuate the young patients.
Honorary Achievements
- Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, however, she refused to take the Nobel honour banquet and requested that the $192,000 prize money be used to help the poor in India.
- She received many awards including the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of international peace and understanding (1972).
- She also received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and Magsaysay awards.
- A special Rs 5 coin was also released by the government of India to commemorate the birth centenary of Mother Teresa.
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