MOTHER TERESA- BIOGRAPHY OF MOTHER TERESA

Mother Teresa

Born

Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. Her real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Gonxha means flower bud in the Albanian language).  In multi-cultural Skopje then part of the Ottoman Empire and now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Mother Teresa had an ethnic Albanian mother whose family came from Kosovo. Mother Teresa was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She grew up in a wealthy family. Nikola was a merchant, trading in tobacco, medicine, and gold, from Macedonia to Romania. She was the youngest of five siblings, it is believed that when she was only 12 years old, she realized that she would devote her whole life to human service and at the age of 18 she joined Sister of Loreto, after that she went to Ireland.

Mother Teresa famous for:

Mother Teresa has been endowed with various awards and honors for her services. The Catholic University of America honored her with a doctorate degree. Teresa took her first religious vows on 24 May 1931. On May 24, 1937, she took her final solemn vows. A solemn vow is a vow (a deliberate and free promise made to God about a possible and better good) that the Church has recognized. As was the tradition for Loreto nuns, she took on the title of "Mother" upon making her final pledge and thus became known as Mother Teresa. In 1962, she received the title of Padma Shri by the Government of India.

By the 1970s she became famous for her humanitarian work for the poor, this was mentioned in several documentaries and books by Malcolm Muggeridge, such as 'Something Beautiful for God.' Mother Teresa received various honors for her weariless and influential charity. Teresa received the Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize. In 1971, she was awarded the Popeyes XII Peace Prize and the Templeton Foundation Award for the development of religion. Visva-Bharati University gave her the Deshikottam title. She was awarded the Jewel of India, the highest honor bestowed on Indian civilians, as well as the now-defunct Soviet Union's Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Committee. In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her work "in bringing help to suffering humanity". In 1988, awarded the title of British Empire by Britain. Banaras Hindu University honored her with the title of D Litt. She is the third Indian citizen who was awarded this award in this world. The announcement of the Nobel Prize for Mother Teresa has brought happiness to the suffering people of the world, while every Indian citizen felt proud.

Sainthood

Within two years of her death, the process to declare her a saint was begun, and Pope John Paul 2 issued a special dispensation to expedite the process of canonization. After an Indian woman was cured of her tumor after praying to Mother Teresa, a miracle was declared, and the third of the four steps to sainthood was completed. She was beatified on October 19, 2003, reaching the ranks of the blessed in what was then the shortest time in the history of the church. 

The final stage required to become a saint involves a second miracle. Pope Francis recognized the medically inexplicable waking (and healing) of an extremely ill Brazilian man from a coma on December 9, 2008, just minutes before he was to undergo emergency brain surgery as being caused by the intervention of Mother Teresa, On December 17, 2015. Pope Francis consecrated Mother Teresa as a saint in Vatican City on 9 September 2016. She was canonized (pronounced a saint)  by Pope Francis 1.

Died: 5 September 1997 

In April 1996 she fell, breaking her collarbone, and four months later she had malaria and heart failure. Although Teresa had heart surgery, her health was clearly declining. On 13 March 1997 Teresa resigned as head of the Missionaries of Charity, and she died on 5 September.

INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES