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Mother Teresa
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Original Name |
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhia |
Popularly known as |
Mother Teresa |
Date of birth |
26,Aug,1910 |
Place of birth |
Skopje in Macedonia |
Family |
Dad: Kolė
Mom: Drana Sisters : Aga (1904), Lazar (1907) |
Schooling |
Went to the Lyceum |
Turning point in
life |
- 1928 joined the
Loreto Sisters
- In 1929 Sister Teresa
was assigned to teach at the St Mary's Convent School in
Calcutta, India.
- In august 1948 she left Loreto community
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Heard God's voice on |
First Call On Sep 1947 God's Message
:To leave the convent and help the poorest of poor and to live
with themSecond Call on 10 Sep(Inspiration day". )
Message She had to leave the convent
to help the poorest of the poor and to live with them.
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Achievements |
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Mother's Order, founded in
1947, has nearly 4000 nuns running orphanages, homes of
poor, AIDS hospices and other charitable centres around the
world.
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1948, she opened the first
school for slum children in Calcutta
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1952, she opened Nirmal
Hriday (or Pure hearts), a home for the dying.
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Shishu Bhavan -- the home for
babies.
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Founded Shanti Nagar colony
for lepers where they could build their own houses and could
work on their own fields.
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She opened homes for aids
patients all over the world.
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Mother Teresa gave her
support to the rehabilitation of the
prisoners in India.
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Opened soup kitchen to
provide a warm meal and a warm place and good food to
homeless people
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opened a house for alcoholics, drug addicts and homeless and
destitute in
Rome.
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Awards |
- 1971 Peace prize Pope John XXIII
- 1972 Koruna Dut, angel of charity,
President of India
- 1975 Albert Schweitzer International
Price
- 1979 Nobel price for Peace
- 1996 Honorary citizen of America (4th
person to get this nomination)
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Other facts |
- When she was a child she was in the
Choir, she was a soprano, and second voice.
- She also played the mandolin
- She liked to be in church, she liked to
read and to pray and to sing
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Reached Heaven on |
5,Sep,1997 |
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