Mother Teresa

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In 1950, Mother Teresa founded what was to become the Missionaries of Charity. Its main focus was to be the propagation of the Catholic faith, but it was to achieve this by demonstrating care for the destitute and homeless. A temple annexe was donated to Mother Teresa's order and was converted to provide beds for the dying destitute. Publicity surrounding this home soon resulted in donations that exceeded a hundred million dollars per year, allowing the order to provide hundreds of beds throughout India and other parts of the world, as well as some food relief for the homeless poor. The order also runs convents and missions for the propagation of the faith in over a hundred countries around the world.

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Publicly, Mother Teresa said that she did her work because someone needed to care for "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."

Privately she said, "We are not nurses, we are not doctors, we are not teachers, we are not social workers. We are religious, we are religious, we are religious." This is in keeping with Mother Teresa's priority in spending the bulk of the donations she received, on religious work rather than the relief of poverty.

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Mother Teresa did not have any medical training, nor did most of the sisters and volunteers at the Missions of Charity, so she would not have been able to recognise most of the various illnesses among the inmates of her hospices for the dying destitute. They would have included cancer and other diseases that almost inevitably bring about death. They also included diseases that could easily have been cured if diagnosed correctly, but these inmates generally died from infections in the hospices or from lack of treatment for their condition.

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Mother Teresa witnessed almost every disease and disorder known to man. However, she adamantly declared on numerous occasions that she was running a hospice for the dying and not a medical facility. For the vast majority of those brought to her hospices, this was the only treatment available to them as the strict caste system of India prevented them from obtaining medical treatment elsewhere.

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Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on 27 August 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia. When she was just 17, she joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto, a Catholic order that did charity work in India. She founded the Missionaries of Charity in 1950, which was a new order devoted to helping the sick, disabled and poor, and continued to tirelessly minister to the world's most needy people.

The Missionaries of Charity now operates schools, hospitals, orphanages, and food centres in over 100 cities worldwide. Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, "for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitute a threat to peace". Mother Teresa died on 5 September 1997.

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Mother Theresa was a woman from Albania, born 26 August 1910. She became a member of the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland in 1928 and was sent as a missionary sister to Calcutta. In 1946, she received an "inspiration" from God to establish an Order to care for the poorest of the poor. She applied for and received permission from the Vatican (as she was in Solemn Vows) to leave her Order and start the Sisters of Charity, which was established in the Archdiocese of Calcutta in 1950. Pope John Paul II, who was a friend of hers, opened her cause of Canonization and on 20 December 2002 approved the decrees of her heroic virtues and miracles.

Mother Teresa was the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.

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Born: August 26, 1910

Died: September 5, 1997

Achievements: Started Missionaries of Charity in 1950; received Nobel Prize for Peace in 1979; received Bharat Ratna in 1980.

Mother Teresa was one of the great servants of humanity. She was an Albanian Catholic nun who came to India and founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata. Later on Mother Teresa attained Indian citizenship. Her selfless work among the poverty-stricken people of Kolkata (Calcutta) is an inspiration for people all over the world and she was honored with Nobel Prize for her work.

Mother Teresa's original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She was born on August 27, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. Her father was a successful merchant and she was youngest of the three siblings. At the age of 12, she decided that she wanted to be a missionary and spread the love of Christ. At the age of 18 she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India.

After a few months of training at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin Mother Teresa came to India. On May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948, Mother Teresa taught geography and catechism at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta. However, the prevailing poverty in Calcutta had a deep impact on Mother Teresa's mind and in 1948, she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta.

After a short course with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna, she returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with the Little Sisters of the Poor. She started an open-air school for homeless children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support from church organizations and the municipal authorities. On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Vatican to start her own order. Vatican originally labeled the order as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, and it later came to known as the "Missionaries of Charity". The primary task of the Missionaries of Charity was to take care of those persons who nobody was prepared to look after.

The Missionaries of Charity, which began as a small Order with 12 members in Calcutta, today has more than 4,000 nuns running orphanages, AIDS hospices, charity centres worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Poland, and Australia. In 1965, by granting a Decree of Praise, Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa permission to expand her order to other countries. The order's first house outside India was in Venezuela. Presently, the "Missionaries of Charity" has presence in more than 100 countries.

Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions. These include the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), Nehru Prize for Promotion of International Peace & Understanding (1972), Balzan Prize (1978), Nobel Peace Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna (1980).

On March 13, 1997, Mother Teresa stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997, just 9 days after her 87th birthday. Following Mother Teresa's death, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization, or sainthood. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. Mother Teresa was formally beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 19, 2003 with the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. A second miracle is required for her to proceed to canonization.

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Mother Teresa was poor as a result of her accomplishments because she spent most/all of her money on the Missionaries of Charity. Roman Catholic Answer Mother Teresa was a religious under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. She was materially poor - the Sisters are not permitted to own anything, not even the habit that they wear. But she was rich in God's love and in charity, she was rich in the things that count, the only things that you can take to the next world.