biographical sketch of mother Teresa and her contribution and cause that were espoused in about 250 words
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Born: August 27, 1910
Skopje, Macedonia
Died: September 5, 1997
Calcutta, India
Albanian nun
Mother Teresa's devotional work among the poor and dying of India won her the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979. She is also known as the founder of the only Catholic religious order still growing in membership.
Early life
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. At the time of her birth Skopje was located within the Ottoman Empire, a vast empire controlled by the Turks in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Agnes was the last of three children born to Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, Albanian grocers. When Agnes was nine years old, her happy, comfortable, close-knit family life was upset when her father died. She attended public school in Skopje, and first showed religious interests as a member of a school society that focused on foreign missions (groups that travel to foreign countries to spread their religious beliefs). By the age of twelve she felt she had a calling to help the poor.
This calling took sharper focus through Mother Teresa's teenage years, when she was especially inspired by reports of work being done in India by Yugoslav Jesuit missionaries serving in Bengal, India. When she was eighteen, Mother Teresa left home to join a community of Irish nuns, the Sisters of Loretto, who had a mission in Calcutta, India. She received training in Dublin, Ireland, and in Darjeeling, India, taking her first religious vows in 1928 and her final religious vows in 1937.
One of Mother Teresa's first assignments was to teach, and eventually to serve as principal, in a girls' high school in Calcutta. Although the school was close to the slums (terribly poor sections), the students were mainly wealthy. In 1946 Mother Teresa experienced what she called a second vocation or "call within a call." She felt an inner urging to leave the convent life (life of a nun) and work directly with the poor. In 1948 the Vatican (residence of the pope in Vatican City, Italy) gave her permission to leave the Sisters of Loretto and to start a new work under the guidance of the Archbishop of Calcutta.
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Biographical sketch of mother Teresa and her contribution and cause that were espoused in about 250 words
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- Mary Agnes Teresa Bojaxhiu, lovingly and respectfully called as Mother Teresa was born on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, Albania. Mother Teresa attended first a convent-run primary school and later a state-run secondary school. At the age of 18, in the year 1928, Mother Teresa decided to become a nun and left to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loretto in Dublin; from there she was sent to Kolkata, India, where she taught at Saint Mary's High School for Girls.
- On 10 September 1946, Mother Teresa experienced what she stated "call within a call" that transformed her life forever. Seeing the prevalent poverty of Kolkata it had a profound impact on her, and she started “The Missionaries of Charity”. In the year 1952, she opened a home for the dying that enabled people to die with dignity.
- Mother Teresa's work spread around the world. By 2013, there were 700 missions functioning in over 130 nations. In the year 1979, she was conferred with Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian works. Mother Teresa died in 5 September 1997 and in the year 2016, she was canonized as Saint Teresa by the by the Roman Catholic Church