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Ever since she was a young girl Mother Teresa as enchanted with stories of saints, particularly saints who were missionaries. She dreamed of the day she could become a missionary herself.
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What order did Mother Teresa join?
She joined the Sisters of Loreto.
How many sisters did Mother Teresa find?
When she died she had over 4000 sisters in her order.
Which order did Mother Teresa join in Ireland?
She joined the Sisters of loretto order.
Was Mother Teresa a captain in her older days?
She was never a captain but she was Mother Superior of her order of sisters.
Why did people start calling Mother Teresa Mother Teresa?
Teresa was the name she chose upon becoming a nun. The title 'Mother' was a title given by the Sisters of Loreto to all nuns in the order.
What was the name of Mother Teresa's charitable organization?
She founded the Missionaries of Charity.
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.
Which order of nuns did Mother Teresa join and at what age?
Sisters of Loreto at age 18.
Why did Mother Teresa leave the religious order that she had joined?
She quit the Sisters of Loreto to found her own order, the Missionaries of Charity.
Why was she called Mother Teresa?
It is traditional for religious to take a new name when they join a religious order. In the Sisters of Loreto, when a woman makes her final vows, she take the title of Mother. Mother Teresa took the name Teresa in honor of St. Therese of Lisieux, a patron saint of missionaries.
Where did she earn the title Mother Teresa?
Mother is a titled conferred on members of the Loreto Order when they become sisters. Mother Teresa originally wanted to take the name Therese after terese of Lisieux but that name was already taken by another member of the order. She chose instead to take the Spanish version of the name - Teresa.
What order was begun by Mother Teresa?
The Missionaries of Charity was the order founded by Mother Teresa.
