Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa
Angela Dias
U.S. History II
4/28/14
Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who spent her life helping sick and poor people around the world. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. Her parents’ names were Nikola and Dronda Bojaxhiu, and she was the youngest of three children. Agnes was interested in helping people at a very young age. She became a member of a youth group in her parish called Sodality. While she was a member of this youth group, she became interested in missionaries. She joined a community known for their missionary work in India named the Sisters of Loretto at the age of 17. This is where she took her vows, and she chose the name Teresa after Saint Therese of Lisieux.
Soon after, Sister Teresa began teaching at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta. In 1944 she became the principle of the high school. Sister Teresa became very ill and was not able to teach anymore, she was sent to Darjeeling for rest and recuperation. On the way to Darjeeling, she received a call that said, "She was to leave the convent and work with the poor, living among them.” Mother Teresa started teaching at a school in the slums. She also learned basic medicine skills and treated people that could not afford doctors or medicine. Mother Teresa and some of her pupils went around poor neighborhoods and looked for dying children, men and women on the side of the streets who were rejected by local hospitals and brought them to a room that she rented out, and gave them the opportunity to die knowing that someone cared. The group of people that did this with mother Teresa was known as the Missionaries of Charity. The Missionaries of Charity started to branch throughout the world. The society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.
In the 1960s Malcolm Muggeridge wrote and produced a documentary called “Something Beautiful for God”. This book brought a wider public attention to the life of
Angela Dias
U.S. History II
4/28/14
Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who spent her life helping sick and poor people around the world. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. Her parents’ names were Nikola and Dronda Bojaxhiu, and she was the youngest of three children. Agnes was interested in helping people at a very young age. She became a member of a youth group in her parish called Sodality. While she was a member of this youth group, she became interested in missionaries. She joined a community known for their missionary work in India named the Sisters of Loretto at the age of 17. This is where she took her vows, and she chose the name Teresa after Saint Therese of Lisieux.
Soon after, Sister Teresa began teaching at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta. In 1944 she became the principle of the high school. Sister Teresa became very ill and was not able to teach anymore, she was sent to Darjeeling for rest and recuperation. On the way to Darjeeling, she received a call that said, "She was to leave the convent and work with the poor, living among them.” Mother Teresa started teaching at a school in the slums. She also learned basic medicine skills and treated people that could not afford doctors or medicine. Mother Teresa and some of her pupils went around poor neighborhoods and looked for dying children, men and women on the side of the streets who were rejected by local hospitals and brought them to a room that she rented out, and gave them the opportunity to die knowing that someone cared. The group of people that did this with mother Teresa was known as the Missionaries of Charity. The Missionaries of Charity started to branch throughout the world. The society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.
In the 1960s Malcolm Muggeridge wrote and produced a documentary called “Something Beautiful for God”. This book brought a wider public attention to the life of
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