Write a paragraph on 'Mother Teresa' with the help of the following information in about 100 words. (Points : Born in 1910 at Skopje , a small village in Yugoslavia; Parents - Albanians; Earlier name - Agnes Gonxhas Bojaxhin came to India in 1928 - became a nun - thereafter an Indian citizen - Albanian by chance, Indian by choice - a teacher in Loreto Convent School - established "Nirmal Hriday - the shelter of the orphans, aged people and needy - various other kind acts - Nobel Prize in 1979, Bharat Ratna Award in 1980, 'Angel of Peace' from African Nations. Beatified on Sept. 5, 2016 by the Pope in the Vatican city, Death - Sept. 5, 1997.]
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Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu[6] (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta,[7] was an Albanian-Indian[4] Roman Catholic nun and missionary.[8] She was born in Skopje (now the capital of North Macedonia), then part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
Born
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu
26 August 1910
Üsküp, Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
(present-day Skopje, North Macedonia)
Died
5 September 1997 (aged 87)
Calcutta, West Bengal, India
(present-day Kolkata)
Venerated in
Roman Catholic Church
Beatified
19 October 2003, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II
Canonized
4 September 2016, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope Francis
Major shrine
Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Feast
5 September[1]
Attributes
Nun's habit
Rosary
Patronage
World Youth Day
Missionaries of Charity
Archdiocese of Calcutta (co-patron) [2][3]
Title
Superior generalReligion
Catholicism
Nationality
Ottoman subject (1910–1912)
Serbian subject (1912–1915)
Bulgarian subject (1915–1918)
Yugoslavian subject (1918–1943)
Yugoslavian citizen (1943–1948)
Indian subject (1948–1950)
Indian citizen[4] (1950–1997)
Albanian citizen[5] (1991–1997)
honorary American citizenship (awarded 1996)
Denomination
Catholic
Signature
Signature of Mother Teresa.svg
Institute
Sisters of Loreto
(1928–1948)
Missionaries of Charity
(1950–1997)Period in office
1950–1997
Successor
Sr. Nirmala Joshi, MC
In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow – to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."[9]
Teresa received a number of honors, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day. A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work. She was praised and criticized on various counts, such as for her views on abortion and contraception, and was criticized for poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorized biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and she has been the subject of films and other books. On 6 September 2017, Teresa and St. Francis Xavier were named co-patrons of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta
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Nun and missionary Mother Teresa, known in the Catholic church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, devoted her life to caring for the sick and poor. Born in Macedonia to parents of Albanian-descent and having taught in India for 17 years, Mother Teresa experienced her "call within a call" in 1946. Her order established a hospice; centers for the blind, aged and disabled; and a leper colony.
In 1979, Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003. In December 2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, clearing the way for her to be canonized on September 4, 2016.
Mother Teresa’s parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were of Albanian descent; her father was an entrepreneur who worked as a construction contractor and a trader of medicines and other goods. The Bojaxhius were a devoutly Catholic family, and Nikola was deeply involved in the local church as well as in city politics as a vocal proponent of Albanian independence.
In 1919, when Mother Teresa — then Agnes — was only eight years old, her father suddenly fell ill and died. While the cause of his death remains unknown, many have speculated that political enemies poisoned him.
In the aftermath of her father's death, Agnes became extraordinarily close to her mother, a pious and compassionate woman who instilled in her daughter a deep commitment to charity. Although by no means wealthy, Drana Bojaxhiu extended an open invitation to the city's destitute to dine with her family. "My child, never eat a single mouthful unless you are sharing it with others," she counseled her daughter. When Agnes asked who the people eating with them were, her mother uniformly responded, "Some of them are our relations, but all of them are our people."