Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born on August 26,1910 in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Her name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity. In 1979 she won the Nobel Piece Prize for her humanitarian work. She spent more than forty years helping to the sick, orphaned and poor people.

Since a young girl, after the death of her father she was very impressed by stories about missionaries and their live. She decided to commit herself to religious life. When she was 18 she left her home and became missionaries and joined the Sisters of Loreto. She never again saw her relatives.

Agnes went to the Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland to learn English. The Sisters of Loreto used this language to teach the children at school in India. In May 24 she took her first religious vows and chose the name Teresa. Thérèse de Lisieux was the patron saint of all missionaries.
Mother Teresa began her missionary work with the poor people in 1984.Her affords to help were noticed by the Indian government and the Indian Prime minister expressed his appreciation.

It has been very difficult for her to get used with her new life .In her diary she says: “Our Lord wants me to be a free nun covered with the poverty of the cross. Today I learned a good lesson. The poverty of the poor must be so hard for them. While looking for a home I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached. I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food and health. Then the comfort of Loreto [her former order] came to tempt me. ‘You have only to say the word and all that will be yours again,’ the Tempter kept on saying … Of free choice, my God, and out of love for you, I desire to remain and do whatever be your Holy will in my regard. I did not let a single tear come.”

In 1950 she received Vatican permission to organize the Missionaries of Charity. Its’ main idea was to care for the “the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone.”
In 1952 in Calcuta Mother Teresa opened the first Home for the Dying People. “A beautiful death,” she said, “is for people who lived like animals to die like angels — loved and wanted.”

In 1955 she opened the Children’s Home of the Immaculate Hearts for the children in need, orphans and homeless youth.