Agnes was only 12 years old when she first though of becoming a
run and devoting her life to the church. Father Jambrekovich helped
direct her decision. At the age of 18 she announced her decision to
became a missionary nun.
Agnes took training in
Sublin, Ireland as a missionary. There she took her first course in the
English language. From that time on-wards she used the name Teresa. In
the view of her trainers she was not outstanding. She was shy and
hardworking. But she possessed a charming personality for which everyone
liked her.
On December 1, 1928
Mother Teresa and her
friend Betika came to Darjeeling. There she took training at the Loreto
convent. After two years of intensive study of Loreto history, prayer and
mission work, she took her first vows-promising to live a life of
poverty, chastity, and obedience and was ready to teach at the convent
and assisted the nurses in a Bengali hospital. For the first time she
came face-to-face with the relentless human suffering, she had heard and
read about.
Then she came to Calcutta to teach
Geography and History at St. Mary's school. Subsequently she was
appointed heard of that institution. From then on, she would be known as
Mother Teresa.
At that time Calcutta was full
of slums. The life in the slums was not decent. People were dying there
for want of food, medicine, care and money. They were poor folk. They
couldn't afford a square meal for the day leave aside medicines?
Mother
Teresa heard the voice of God who told her to serve those sick and poor
people. The actual life of
Mother Teresa began. Catholia Church brought a
residential home whose address was 54A Lower Circular Road. From this
home
Mother Teresa started her mission. Soon this home became famous in India and eventually around the world.
Hers was a
life of duty. One by one she founded numerous destitute homes for the
poor, the orphans, the sick and the dying. Her charitable homes extended
beyond Calcutta. She even opened Shanti Nagar, a home for the lepers. She
was not afraid to treat leprosy-patients. She was engaged 24 hours a
day in the service of the suffering humanity. Still she had always a
smile on her lips "Smiling".
Mother Teresa said, is the beginning of love".
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News of
Mother Teresa's amazing success spread beyond India to the rest
of the world. Nuns from the other cities joined her order and under her
direction opened houses in Europe and the United States. She
established treatment centres for hug addicts and alcoholics too.
In the 1980s more houses opened in Europe, Africa, the United States,
and South America. Time magazine called
Mother Teresa "a messenger of
love"
and gave its readers a glimpse into the life of a living saint".
As she aged, she suffered from heart aliments which slowed down her
work. In spite of her heart attack in 1983.
Mother Teresa kept on
working and traveling. On October 24, 1985 at the age of 75, she was
honoured speaker at the 40th anniversary of the United Nations in New
York. Where Secretary General Javier Cucllar introduced her as "the most
powerful women in the world".
The Govt. of
India honoured
Mother Teresa by bestowing on her the highest civilian
award "
Bharata Ratna" . In 1979 the world honoured her with Nobel Prize
for peace. But prizes can't evaluate her extraordinary personality. She
was actually an angel in flesh and blood. She left for heaven on 5t
September, 1997 leaving millions of destitute crying "
O Mother! O
Mother!".
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