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Mother Teresa, one of the world’s most renowned nuns, was born in Skopje, Macedonia on August 26, 1910, as the youngest of three children. Her father was a well-known Albanian contractor and her mother was a housewife and mother to all three children. |
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By the age of twelve, she felt a strong calling to become a nun. She left her parents' home at eighteen to join the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish based missionary organization that worked out of India. On May 24, 1931, after a few months of extensive training, she took her vows to become a nun in India. For seventeen years she taught at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta. |
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In 1948, because of the great poverty she was witnessing in the slums of Calcutta, she received authorization to go work outside the city walls. With no funds, she started an uncovered school for the children of the slums . She depended on a charitable organization, called Divine Providence, for moderate funds. |
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| Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order called “The Missionaries of Charity” on October 7, 1950. Mother Teresa has been recognized and awarded many rewards and medals. Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87 of cardiac arrest in the Missionaries of Charity Headquarters in India. |
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"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
~Mother Teresa
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