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Who cared for the poor and dying people of India?
Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta and her order of nuns worked (and continue to work) with the poor and dying of India.
What did Mother Teresa and her order do in Calcutta?
For over a period of 45 years she and the other nuns, looked after the poor, sick, orphaned and the destitute isn the city of Calcutta. They were called Sisters of Charity.
What city did Mother Teresa go to?
When Mother Teresa founded her Order, she started in the city of Calcutta.
Where did Mother Teresa live and work as adult?
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, after she founded her Order, the Missionaries of Charity, started her work in Calcutta, and did most of her work in India, although by the time of her death, the Missionaries of Charity were world-wide, and Mother was at each of the houses when it began. She also spent a great deal of time traveling, but she will always be especially associated with India, which threw a state funeral for her, and with Calcutta especially.
What is missionaries of charity?
The order, founded by Mother Teresa, work in over 100 countries around the world but are probably most active in India.
When did Mother Teresa start her mission in Calcutta?
She began working with the Sisters of Loreto in 1929 but founded her own order, the Missionaries of Charity, which was approved by the Vatican in 1950.
What order of new nuns did Mother Teresa start?
Mother Teresa founded the Missionary Sisters of Charity. Actually, the Missionaries of Charity are not just sisters. The group also has priests, brothers and lay volunteers who are both Catholic and non Catholic.
Where in India did Mother Teresa base her mission?
She arrived in India in 1929, and began her novitiate in Darjeeling, near the Himalayan mountains, where she learned Bengali and taught at the St. Teresa's School, a schoolhouse close to her convent. She took her solemn vows on May 14, 1937, while serving as a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta.
When did Mother Teresa leave home and how old was she at the time?
St. Teresa of Calcutta, also known as Mother Teresa was a Sister, she was never in a "nunnery". She was originally a Sister of Loretto, later she left to found the Missionaries of Charity and became the founding Mother Superior of that Order.
Which is the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother Theresa?
The order was founded in 1950 in Calcutta, India, by Mother Teresa.
Where is Mother Teresa's grave?
Mother Theresa's funeral was held in St. Thomas Church in Calcutta. The funeral rites began with a military escort of 15 vehicles carrying her body on a gun carriage in a procession from St. Thomas to the stadium and then to a private burial at Mother House, the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charityreligious order founded by Mother Teresa.
How many sisters did Mother Teresa find?
When she died she had over 4000 sisters in her order.
