61. Mother Teresa By ANNE SEBBA Doubleday. ORIGINS. Nineteenten was a tumultuous year in Albania. It was a momentous year for the Bojaxhiu family too. On 26 August this Catholic Albanian family, one http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/s/sebba-teresa.html

62. Lesson Plan - Mother Teresa Famous Person Mother Teresa Related Topics Religion Humanitarian Service Poverty Grade Level 4th Grade Author J. Gregory Stewart http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/TERESA2.html

Famous Person: Mother Teresa Related Topics: Religion Humanitarian Service Poverty Grade Level: 4th Grade Author: J. Gregory Stewart Menu Background References Objectives Procedures ... Assessment Background In the opinion of many people, the world's greatest and most honored humanitarian today is an eighty-seven-year-old nun known as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, India. For at least seventy years, since the age of seventeen, she has totally devoted her life to charitable works. Today mother Teresa and her associates have more than six hundred missions of charity in one hundred and twenty countries on five continents. These are staffed by several thousand nuns plus many other volunteers. She has been chiefly responsible for establishing a number of medical centers to treat specific diseases. For example in 1964 she founded a leper colony in West Bengal. In 1985 she established a hospice for patients with AIDS in New York City. These are just two examples of many that could be mentioned. Mother Teresa has traveled throughout the world giving humanitarian service. Her home base is in the huge city of Calcutta, India, where she has spent much of her life personally administering to the needs of the sick and the poor. Calcutta is where she established her first formal Mission of Charity. She worked for many years as the principal of a Roman Catholic high school. While she was principal of the high school she also spent many hours each week assisting people in need. In 1948 Mother Teresa asked for and received permission from the Pope to live outside of the convent and live with and serve the poor in the streets of Calcutta. She spent three months at Patna Holy Family Hospital learning to be a nurse so she could know how to take care of the poor who were sick.

63. Mother Teresa — Poet Seers Mother Teresa . View Poems and Prayers of Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died on September 5, 1997, in her convent in India. http://www.poetseers.org/spiritual_and_devotional_poets/christian/mother/

Skip to content. Skip to navigation Site Map Accessibility ... Contact Sections Search Site Spiritual Poets Sufi poets Hindu Poets Christian Mystics ... Buddhist Poets Personal tools PoetSeers Spiritual Poets Christian Mystics Mother Teresa Navigation Mother Teresa Tribute to Mother Teresa Mother Teresa Poems Mother Teresa Mother Teresa View: Poems and Prayers of Mother Teresa Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died on September 5, 1997, in her convent in India. She was 87. Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia, she joined the Sisters of Loreto in 1928. She took the name "Teresa" after St. Teresa of Lisieux , patroness of the Missionaries. After a few months training in Ireland Mother Teresa went to India where she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 she worked as a teacher in a local school. However she was deeply affected by the suffering and poverty that she saw around her in the poorest areas of Calcutta. In 1948 she was given permission to leave the convent in order to help alleviate the suffering around her. On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI.

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