BIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER TERESA By SIDDHANT AGNIHOTRI B.Sc (Silver Medalist) M.Sc (Applied Physics) Facebook: sid_educationconnect
CHILDHOOD Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She was born in Skopje now the capital of the Republic of Macedoniathen part of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. Mother Teresa s parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu, were of Albanian descent; her father was an entrepreneur who worked as a construction contractor and a trader of medicines and other goods. Agnes was a pious and compassionate woman who instilled a deep commitment to charity. Agnes was not only naturally obedient but also unusually serious for her age. After world war 1 the Bojaxhius hometown and province were annexed to the newly created Kingdom of the Serbs.Her father died when she was merely nine and tragedy struck.
STRONG MOTHER Drana s despair only grew when her husband s former business partner stole Kole s share of the earnings and then disappeared, leaving the Bojaxhius all but penniles. she had no choice but ton become the family s breadwinner, she set up a small business of her own, selling embroidered cloth and other locally crafted textiles Whole family became very religious In fact, during the early 1900s, only about 25 percent of Kosova s Albanian population was Catholic. Drana Bojaxhiu, regularly took food, clothing, and other items to the destitute and sick of the parish. Mother Teresa recalled that her mother never broadcast her good deeds.
YOUNG AGNES(TERESA) Slender and unusually petite at just five feet tall, she was an attractive girl with dark hair and deepset brown eyes. After receiving her early education in the Albanian language at a private Catholic school, she attended a public high school. Throughout her adolescence, Agnes was active in the Church of the Sacred Heart. Agnes s growing involvement in the church coincided with the arrival of Father Franjo Jambrekovic as Sacred Heart s new parish priest in 1925. The time she graduated from high school and turned 18, Agnes Bojaxhiu had come to believe that God was not only calling her to be a nun but more specifically to be a missionary nun,
TERESA Agnes understood that, when she left Skopje to join the Sisters of Loreto, she might very well be saying goodbye to her mother and siblings forever. When Agnes told her mother she intended to become a missionary nun, Drana was crushed. On December 1, 1928, Agnes and Betika left Ireland on the sailing ship the Marcha. They were headed for India. on May 23, 1929, Agnes officialy became novices, the next stage after postulant in the process of becoming a nun they took new names in honor of a favourate saint.agnes took the name of Teresa.
BOON TO INDIA Shortly after taking her first vows, Sister Teresa was assigned to teach in the Loreto convent school at Darjeeling, which served British and Indian girls in 1931. Teresa left Darjeeling and was now a resident of Loreto Entally, her order s extensive compound in Entally, a district of Calcutta on the city s east side. She saw body on the streets during the partition of India and the violence raged on, all deliveries of food and other supplies within the city came to a standstill. Mother Teresa made numerous initiatives to help poor and work for the slums.
SAINT After establishing a charitable institution at Ranchi, she quickly opened houses in a host of other Indian locations, including Jhansi, Ambala, Patna, and Bombay. By the early 1970s, Mother Teresa, who now oversaw some 80 houses in locations all over the globe, was well on her way to becoming a major international celebrity. On December 8, 1979, Mother Teresa accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and the $190,000 check unworthily but gratefully in the name of the poor, the hungry, the sick and the lonely. She met various leaders and expanded her missions globally.
DEATH AND HONOURS In November 1996, after suffering a near-fatal heart attack, she informed her Sisters that she could no longer continue as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity. On Friday, September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa died in the Calcutta convent that had been her home for 47 years. on Saturday, September 13, Mother Teresa was honored with an Indian state funeral. Mother Teresa received numerous award and hnours during her life including Nobel Prize and Bharat Ratna.
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