Born Agnes Bojaxhiu, Mother Teresa grew up in Uskub, Ottoman Empire on August 26, 1910. She had early exposure to missionary work and charity, her mother and father would bring Agnes to help with charity and feed and care for the poor. This lead her on a good path to righteousness and holiness at a young age. She impacted people in nothing but good ways, from charity to church and missionary work. Mother Teresa has had a monumental impact on charity and Catholicism.
Mother Teresa founded charities around the world. She founded the “Order of the missionaries of charity”, a large Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of India. Mother Teresa established Nirmal Hriday “The Home of the Pure
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In 2002, the Vatican recognized a miracle involving an Indian woman named Monica Besra, who said she was cured of an abdominal tumor through Mother Teresa's intercession on the one-year anniversary of her death in 1998. She was “beatified as "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta" on October 19, 2003 by Pope John Paul II”. (“Mother Teresa.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television) Mother Teresa was canonized as a saint on September 4, 2016, a day before the 19th anniversary of her death. Pope Francis led the canonization mass, Tens of thousands of Catholics and and others from around the world attended the canonization to celebrate the woman who had done so much for so many people. Mother Teresa also spoke at the 40th anniversary of the united nations general assembly. This is a great honor for someone, and also clearly states that you must be important to the world, and make impacts. Mother Teresa is one of the most famous saints in the world because of her teachings and charity work, she is one of the most recent saints, but by far the most famous and …show more content…
On December 17, 2015, Pope Francis recognized a second miracle attributed to Mother Teresa, The second miracle involved the healing of Marcilio Andrino, a Brazilian man who was diagnosed with a viral brain infection and lapsed into a coma. His wife, family and friends prayed to Mother Teresa, and when the man was brought to the operating room for emergency surgery, he woke up without pain and was cured of his symptoms, according to a statement from the Missionaries of Charity Father. Hundreds of thousands of people went to her funeral. This just shows how big of an impact Mother Teresa had on so many people, making so many go out of their way to pay their respects. Even with increasing health problems, Mother Teresa traveled across the world to help other in need. From the late 1980s through the 1990s, despite increasing health problems, Mother Teresa worked continuously, opening new houses, and service to the poor and disaster-stricken. New communities were founded in South Africa, Albania, Cuba, and war-torn Iraq. By 1997, the Sisters numbered nearly 4,000 members, and were established in almost 600 foundations in 123 countries of the world. “on a gun carriage that had also borne the bodies of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru - through the streets of Calcutta. Presidents, prime ministers, queens, and special envoys were present on behalf of countries from all over the world”. (“Mother Teresa of
Catherine McAuley (29 September 1778 – 11 November 1841) was an Irish nun who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831. The Sisters of Mercy follow a tradition of educating Catholics in schools. This essay will give a brief overview of the life of Catherine McAuley, her achievements and how she responded to the needs of the faithful.
...She was preparing candy for the local children around Christmas time. For about thirty years, Mother Cabrini had traveled regularly from place to place where her schools, orphanages, and hospitals were located. During her second mission, she started writing letters to the missionary sisters telling them about her travels and the daily events. To this day, the letters are still in great condition and still legible. Since Mother Cabrini died, she was sixty-seven years old and because of that, sixty-seven missions of the Institute have been established. Each is a different category of ministry including healing, teaching, caring, giving, and helping in the cities of United States as well as in Europe and South America. Her legacy still lives on to this day and as do her schools, hospitals, and orphanages.
Mother Seton and the Sisters of Charity, by Alma Power-Waters, is an excellent story about the life of Elizabeth Ann Seton. Elizabeth, as a young woman, was wealthy, popular, and well-liked, however, she was not a Catholic. Soon after the death of Elizabeth’s husband, William, Elizabeth attended Catholic Mass with old family friends, and was shortly converted to the Catholic Faith. After becoming a Catholic, Elizabeth became a teacher to earn a living, and later became a nun. This is how Elizabeth Ann Seton became Mother Seton, and started an order of sisters, the Sisters of Charity.
Born in Cederville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860, Jane Addams founded the world famous social settlement of Hull House. From Hull House, where she lived and worked from it’s start in 1889 to her death in 1935, Jane Addams built her reputation as the country’s most prominent women through her writings, settlement work and international efforts for world peace. In 1931, she became the first women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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 de Ahumada y Cepeda, Saint Teresa's complete name, was born in Avila, Castile, Spain on March 28, 1515. Her father, Don Alonso Sanchez de Cepeda, had remarried to his second wife, Dona Beatriz de Ahumada, and Teresa was the third of their nine children. Her father, being a Jewish converso and a highly respected man in Avila, was excluded from many offices in State and religious orders in Spain because of his racial purity. The family though, was large and wealthy in Avila and had no major problems.
She was born in Counterslip Bristol, England on February 3, 1821 and from there became one of nine children to the family of Hannah Lane and Samuel Blackwell. Her family, including herself, was very intrigued with the human rights movements that were taking place during that time. Her father had a heavy
Catherine of Siena was born in Italy in 1347 at a time when political and religious changes were affecting the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Dedicating her life to the Holy Spirit from a very young age, Catherine pursued a life of purity and simplicity that served as a background to her great literary work, The Dialogue of the Divine Providence . Her work focuses on the importance of prayer and its transcendent power in human life.
Mary MacKillop founded the ‘The Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart’, an order dedicated to education and caring for the poor. The Order was officially recognized in 1885 by Pope Leo XIII. Sister Mary through the Order worked for establishing schools, orphanages, and homes for the ill, across Australia, and New
Saint Catherine was born in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347. She was one of twenty-five children, and she had a twin but she died when she was just an infant. Her father, Giacomo di Benincasa, was a cloth dyer and her mother, Lapa Piagenti, was the daughter of a poet. Catherine grew up being a very happy child. It is reported that when she was around 6, she she had a vision of God. When she was 7, she vowed to give her whole life to God.
Mother Teresa believed God worked through the world by prayer, in conclusion she mentioned how prayer was really important in her life and that’s how she connected to God. She mentions in the reading, “The more you pray, the better you will pray.” Not on in prayer but in silence she believed we can connect through God, as she states, “In a vocal prayer we speak to God; and in mental prayer he speaks to us.” Mother Teresa really believed we knew and can be certain that God is possible. Her knowledge of God is related to faith, since she has a knowledge of God she continues her life based off of what she should do for him. She gives to people and serves people for God. An example in the reading is when the poor family with children is given rice, and the mother ends up giving half of the rice to the other family she knows that was starving. This is a Godly act that was preformed.
Biography: St. Catherine of Siena was born on March 25th, 1347 in Siena, Italy, during the infectious outbreak of the Black Plague. When Catherine was 16, her sister, Bonaventura died, as many of her siblings did during childhood, leaving her husband as a widower. Her parents proposed her to marry him as replacement to Bonaventura, which Catherine opposed. In objection, she cut her beautiful hair which her mother loved to weaken her appearance and began to fast.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity, to care for the most destite of Indian society. In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. She and her fellow nuns took in dying Indians off the streets of Calcutta and brought them to this home to care for them during the days before they died, so that they might be able to die in peace and with dignity. In addition she worked with and cared for lepers. Mother Teresa expanded her work by creating a network of 569 missions in 120 nations. Today over 5000 sisters, brothers, and volunteers run approximately 500 centers worldwide, feeding 500,000 families and helping 90,000 lepers every year. For her work she was awarded many honors. For example she was awarded the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971, and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
Teresa, Mother. A gift for God / Mother Teresa of Calcutta &endash; 1st U.S. edition, New York: Harper & Row, 1975.
“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”- Mother Teresa. Indian nun, Mother Teresa, was an outstanding individual, who's ideals and morals were saint-like which she displayed in three major events that she globally sunned everyone; Von Der Schulenburg death, her aid for the poor, and her fight against abortion. As these are all but a few over her courageous acts, she showed a Godly roll modal for other religions, and was rewarded with a nodel bell prize to show for her selflessness. In the book “Something Beautiful for God”, the anther was heavily criticized for not being impartial, however, which sets a higher president, “Inspiring” or “impartial”?