Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun who devoted her life to serving the poor and destitute around the world. She spent many years in Calcutta, India where she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation devoted to helping those in great need. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and became a symbol of charitable, selfless work. In 2016, Mother Teresa was canonised by the Roman Catholic Church as Saint Teresa.
At the age of 18, she was given permission to join a group of nuns in Ireland. After a few months of training, with the Sisters of Loreto, she was then given permission to travel to India. She took her formal religious vows in 1931 and chose to be named after – the patron saint of missionaries.
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The primary objective of this mission was to look after people, who nobody else was prepared to look after. Mother Teresa felt that serving others was a fundamental principle of the teachings of Jesus Christ.
She experienced two particularly traumatic periods in Calcutta. The first was the Bengal famine of 1943 and the second was the Hindu/Muslim violence in 1946, before the partition of India. In 1948, she left the convent to live full-time among the poorest of Calcutta. She chose to wear a white Indian sari, with a blue border, out of respect for the traditional Indian dress. For many years, Mother Teresa and a small band of fellow nuns survived on minimal income and food, often having to beg for funds. But, slowly her efforts with the poorest were noted and appreciated by the local community and Indian politicians.
In 1952, she opened her first home for the dying, which allowed people to die with dignity. Mother Teresa often spent time with those who were dying. Some have criticised the lack of proper medical attention, and their refusal to give painkillers. Others say that it afforded many neglected people the opportunity to die knowing that someone
orphanage and went on a long journey where she met many people that were like her, in
From quite a young age, when many people do not know what they are doing with their lives, Mary had already decided that she wanted to be a nun and help people as much as she could, she wanted to help the poor and less fortunate than her. Mary worked with people and children and ...
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.
After moving to Rochester, NY in 1845, the Anthony family became very active in the anti-slavery movement.
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
Teresa Sánchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada lived in Avila, Spain where she was born in 1515 and lived during the Reformation until her death at age 67. She was canonized in 1622, forty years after her death. St. Teresa's grandmother was forced to be converted from a Jew into a Christian during the Inquisition. Without her grandmother’s conversion, St. Teresa would never have become a Christian saint. Her parents were Godly people and showed tremendous integrity.
Teresa grew into a graceful, pleasing teenager who enjoyed dressing up and wearing jewelry. She later regretted this period of her life. When she was thirteen, her mother, Dona Beatriz, died. Her father sent Teresa away to an Augustinian school for girls. She then had to choose between marriage, in which she had no interest, or the religious life. At that point Teresa became very ill, and decided to join the Carmelite Convent of the Incarnation without her father's permission. She secretly left home in November of 1536 to begin her new life. Don Alonso then decided to approve of her decision. Teresa chose the Carmelite order because a close friend was in the convent.
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.
1821 in Massachusetts to a farming family, and was the youngest of five children. Her first experience
Most of Saint Clare’s education took place in the Cathedral, which was her local church, being not far from her home. Even as a child and young woman, Clare was known as being dedicated to prayer, obedient to her parents, and generous and compassionate to the poor. She had heard a young man, St. Francis of Assisi, preaching in the piazzas of Assisi, and as soon as she saw him, she became determined to live the Gospel in a more thorough way. She then went to a nunnery and found the order of Franciscan women, who became known as the “Poor Clares”, or simply “Clares.”
Although, many documents and records, including tradition, informs us that she came from a well-off family in Assisi. The preaching of Francis in the cathedral inspired Clare to run away at the age of eighteen. She joined his society of friars at a small Catholic church, the Portiuncula. Her family soon tried to take her back by force and punishment, but her dedication to her faith and poverty led the Friars to accept her decision to stay. She gave to the devotion of being a nun and transferred to the monasteries of Benedictine.
She helped the ill and the poor. "A message that told her to leave the convent and help the poor by living among them"(Rosenberg,2015). She also taught small children in the slums. "After walking around the slums for a while, she found some small children and began to teach them" (Rosenberg,2015).Before she helped the poor, sick, and children, she was a teacher at St. Mary's. " While living in Calcutta during the 1930's and '40's, she taught in St.
During this time period, Mother Teresa adopted Indian citizenship and spent several months in Patna to receive medical training at the Holy Family Hospital before venturing off to complete her charity work. She began her missionary work by founding a school in Motijhil, Kolkata, and from the start, Mother Teresa was joined by a group of young women who helped her form a religious community with the basic foundation of helping the “poorest among the poor” (“Mother Teresa,” n.d.). While Mother Teresa’s efforts were noticed by several officials, the first year of her missionary work was wrought with difficulty. During this time, Mother Teresa had no income, she had to beg for food, and the temptation to return to her previous life at the convent was great. A diary entry written by Mother Teresa herself describes in detail the hardships and lessons that she experienced: “Our Lord wants me to be a free nun covered with the poverty of the cross. Today, I learned a good lesson. The poverty of the poor must be so hard for them. While looking for a home, I walked and walked till my arms and legs ached. I thought how much they must ache in body and soul, looking for a home, food, and health. Then, the comfort of Loreto came to tempt me. ‘You have only to say the word and all that will be yours again,’ the Tempter kept on saying, ‘of free choice, my God, and out of love for you, I desire to remain and do whatever be your