Mother Teresa was a kind and holy nun. She won many awards, started an order dedicated to the poor, and worked up until her death feeding and taking care of the poor.
She is a very good example to follow.
Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia. She was baptized the next day with the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Agnes went to a convent-run primary school and then a state-run secondary school. As a young girl, she sang in the local Sacred Heart choir and was usually asked to sing solos. Every year the congregation made a pilgrimage to the Church of the Black Madonna in Letnice, and she felt the calling to religious life there at the age of 12. Six years later Agnes Bojaxhiu decided to become a nun and set off for Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto in Dublin. There she took the name Sister Mary Teresa of the Child Jesus after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.
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Then she went to Calcutta where she taught history and geography to wealthy girls. She learned to speak both Hindi and Bengali fluently. Within the school, she established a sodality for older girls to take part in. They would go out and help the poor on the streets of India. In 1937 she took her Final Profession of vows and became the school principal.
After having taught in India for 17 years, Mother Teresa experienced her "call within a call" in 1946. While on a train during a retreat, she saw Jesus sitting next to her. He told her to go out and help the “poorest of the poor”. After consulting with priests and the bishop, she started an order called the Missionaries of Charity. She didn’t have many members at first, but then after seeing her good deeds, people wanted to join. Her order established a home for the sick, centers for the blind, the aged and the disabled, and a leper
Mary MacKillop was born in Fitzroy, Melbourne on January the 15th 1842. She was the first child to Alexander MacKillop and Flora MacDonald. Mary was one child out of 8 and spent most of her childhood years looking after and acting like a second mother to her siblings. The MacKillop family were quite poor so at the young age of 14, Mary got herself a job as a governess and as teacher at a Portland school. All the money Mary earned went towards her families everyday living. While working as a governess, Mary met Father Julian Tension Woods. By the time Mary had reached the age of 15 she had decided that she wanted to be a nun. She also wanted to devote her life to the poor and less fortunate. So upon meeting Father Julian Tension Woods she told him her hopes and dreams, and together they decided to set up a school. In 1861, they worked together and opened Australia's first free Catholic school. At the time only the rich could afford schooling. But at the school Mary opened anyone was welcome. Mary was a great teacher and became very popular within the community. Although Mary was very pleased with her work she still felt a religious calling. So Mary and Father Woods started their own order, 'The Sisters of St. Joseph.' In 1867 Mary then moved to Adelaide where she opened another school. Before long there were 17 schools open across Australia. Mary's followers grew and by 1909 she had followers all over Australia. Mary later died on the 8th of August 1909.
Frances Cabrini was born in July 15, 1850 to Agostino Cabrini and Stella Oldini in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardi, Italy. She was one of eleven children born to the Cabrini family and one of the only four children that survived past adolescence. She was born two months premature and was small and weak as a child. These factors, as well as the strong faith of her parents, would have an impact on the rest of her life, mission, and works. Agostino Cabrini, her father, often read Propagation of the Faith to her and the rest of the family. The stories were all about the missions in China and from a young age, Frances desired to become a missionary. By the age of eighteen, Frances knew that she wanted to be a nun, however; her weak health stood in the way. She could not join the Sacred Heart of Jesus. So instead, in 1863, Frances enrolled as a boarding student at the Normal School in Arluno with the intentions of becoming a schoolteacher. The school was directed by the Daughters of the Sacred Heart. Frances lived at the school for five years, residing in the convent with the nuns. Frances was elated to live with the nuns and to share a faith-centered life with them. She graduated from the Normal School in 1868 with a degree in teaching.
Saint Teresa of Calcutta was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. She later considered August 27, the day she was baptized, her "true birthday." Saint Teresa received her first communion at the age of five, and was later confirmed on November of 1916. In her early years, Saint Teresa was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries, their services, and contributions to the world. By the age 12, she had become convinced that she should commit herself to a religious life. Saint Teresa left home at the age of 18 to pursue her dream of doing missionary work, and joined the Institute of Blessed Virgin Mary, known as the Sisters of Loreto. On May 24, 1931, she took her first religious vows as a nun; at that time
Teresa hated convent. Later on she fell in love and got closer to God. Teresa still had a hard time when she was faced with the question of choosing between marriage and religion. Do to her past and watching her mother's marriage get destroyed, she wasn't ready to answer the question of choosing marriage or religion. Teresa was given’ a lot of attention do to her beauty. She had a similar problem as to Saint Francis of Assisi. Teresa was a likable person due to her charm. She didn’t mind the attention instead she liked it and embraced it. This made Teresa fall farther apart from God. Years have gone by and Teresa was ill with the virus of Malaria. Malaria is an intermittent and remittent fever caused by a protozoan parasite that invades the red blood cells. At the age of 43, Teresa became determined to found a new convent. Teresa was a Carmelite nun. Saint Teresa is one of the doctors of the church. In the year of 1582 Teresa sadly died. In 1622, forty years after her death, she was canonized by Pope Gregory XV. It was decided that her Feast Day would be on October 15. Saint Teresa of Ávila was also called Saint Teresa of
became a nun to give back to the community which gave her good Christian morals
When her father did this she felt more connected to a spiritual life and ended up becoming a nun of the Carmelite Order. The convent rules were more relaxed than her father’s which made it a better place to be. In the begging Teresa struggled to find the time to pray due to the overcrowding of people in the convent. She also began to teach others about the virtues of mental prayer. After becoming a nun, Teresa became very sick with malaria, which left her very weak and in a ton of pain for a long period of time. At one point many people thought that she would be unable to recover from such an illness, but during this period of great pain she began to see divine visions. When she started to recover from her illness she resumed her prayers with new motives. When she told the people of her visions of God many of them thought that she was crazy and thought theses visions were from the devil. When she was 41, she met with a priest, which convinced her to start believing in herself again and begin to start praying once again. At the beginning she had many troubles just sitting through the prayers but in time she felt a one on one connection with God and felt like she was filled with
In primary or elementary school Mother Teresa went to a local school run by nuns and in secondary or high school she went to a state run school. After high school at age eighteen she joined the Loreto Sisters of Dublin in Ireland. At the convent she took the name Mary Teresa and later become Mother Teresa (Mother Biography [1]). In Dublin she started training to be a nun the continued and finished in Darjeeling, India. In 1928 Mother Teresa took her first religious vows she took her final vows in 1937 (“Moth...
In the early stages of Catherine's life the surfacing modern age was bringing with it social turmoil which spread throughout Europe (Giordani 3). During Catherine's lifetime, according to Mary Ann Sullivan in her essay “St. Catherine of Siena,” the center of Catholic rule fluctuated between Rome and Avignon and contributed to a schism between popes in Italy and France (1). Catherine was born 23rd in a line of 25 children and, according to Sullivan “even at a young age, [she] sensed the troubled society around her and wanted to help” (1). While her parents were not exceptionally religious, St. Catherine's biographer Blessed Raymond of Capua discusses Catherine's early zeal for Catholic practices: “When she was about five she learned the Hail Mary, and repeated it over and over again as often as she could…she was inspired by heaven to address the Blessed Virgin in this way whenever she went up and down stairs, stopping to kneel on each step as she did so” (24). Her devotion to the Virgin Mary would become especially important in a vision she had around this time while walking with her brother to visit one of her sisters.
Agnes (Mother Teresa) parents were Albanian. She was one out of five siblings, but only three of them survived (“Mother Teresa Bibliography”). Unfortunately for her and the family her father died when she was between the age of seven and nine years of age. By this age Agnes felt and knew that she had a great love for god. After Agnes father died she was very involved in the church. Agnes heard the calling of god about the age of twelve for her to devote her life to him (“Mother Teresa-Facts”). Since, she was too young to join the nuns so she just continued to go to church until she was of age to do so.
She joined the Sisters of Loreto, which was an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. When the few mouths of ...
It all started in 1922 in Skopje, Yugoslavia. One day while, the soon to be known as, Mother Teresa was walking, she felt God call her to serve the poor at only the age of 12. Seven years later she discovered her calling was to serve the poor in Calcutta, India and prepared to leave her comfy nunnery in Loretto. As she walked through the beautiful garden in the nunnery, before she left, she questioned leaving all of this beauty for the slums of Calcutta.
when she was 17, was hired as a teacher for small children. After a few years of teaching at the public
Mother Teresa, formally known by the Catholic church as Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was born on August 26th, 1910, and lived until September 5th, 1997, dying at the age of eighty-seven. Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta was an Albanian- Indian, born in Skopje, now known as the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta lived in Skopje for eighteen years before moving to Ireland and then India, where she spent the majority of her life. Mother Teresa was the child of the politically involved couple, Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu. During her childhood, she was fascinated by the lives of missionaries and their services, and by the age of twelve, she had made the decision to devote herself to the religious life. At
Mother Teresa is one of the most recognized women in the world. Teresa brought in a revolutionary change in the world with her positive thoughts and love for humanity. Her missionary work started way back 1931 when she was still a little girl. She joined the Nuns as a kid in 1931, and she was later named Teresa from Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. It was in respect and honor of the Saints of Theresa. Mother Teresa’s missions were concentrated around helping the poor people with their basic needs such as food, water and shelter. She also demonstrated a lot of interest in taking care of the weak and defenseless people in the society. For example, it has been recorded that she spent a lot of time caring for the elderly, disabled and injured. At the same