| Original Name |
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhia |
| Popularly known as |
Mother Teresa |
| Date of birth |
26,Aug,1910 |
| Place of birth |
Skopje in Macedonia |
| Family |
Dad: Kol�
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 |
Second 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. |
| 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 |
