Mother
Teresa was born on 26th August, 1910. She was a Roman Catholic religious sister
and missionary of Albania, but spent almost all her life in India to work for
the upliftment of the downtrodden and the miserable. She was basically a nun by
profession dedicated to help the poor. She got her calling to devote her life
to those needs and demands care and affection. Mother Teressa founded
Missionaries of Charity, which is actively present in 133 countries. In 1979,
she received Nobel Peace Prize.
Childhood
Mother
Teresa was born to Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu in Skopje, the current
capital of the Republic of Macedonia. She was the youngest of all her siblings.
Her father died when she was barely eight years old. After her father’s death
her mother raised her as a Roman Catholic. By the time she became twelve years
old, she had decided to dedicate her life for the sake of aged and needy and
lead a religious and spiritual life. She left home by the time she became
eighteen to join Sisters of Loreto as a missionary and never returned to see
her mother or sister as how they are living and earning their livelihood. She
was not bothered only because of the reason that they were not needy as other
poor people and she knew they can and will survive without her.
Education
and career
Mother
Teresa used to go to the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn
English, the language the Sisters of Loreto used to teach school children in
India. After that she went to Darjeeling in India and there she learnt the language
Bengali and taught at the St. Teresa's School, a schoolhouse close to her
convent. She took her religious vows while serving as a teacher in eastern
Calcutta. Later on after serving the
school for almost twenty years, she became the Principal of the school. She
loved serving as a teacher as it satisfied her and alongside helped immensely
to those in despair and horror.
Plunge
as a Missionary
Mother
Teresa started working as a missionary in the year 1948 and adopted new look
that of a nun completely. She spent few months of her life in Patna to acquire
basic medical training in Holy Family Hospital. Soon after completing the
training, she started helping the poor and many women joined her and community
known as poorest among the poor was found. Her efforts were soon noticed and
were appreciated by the Indian Government.
At
the end
Near
about 1983, her health started deteriorating and one day she suffered heart
attack. Adjacent to it were lung and kidney problems. She got second heart
attack in 1989 and received an artificial peacemaker. In the year 1997, Mother
Teresa died at the age of eighty seven.
