Mother Teresa,Saint,Monica Besra ,Missionaries of Charity,'Some thing Beautiful for God''the living saint'Pope Paul VI

Mother Teresa

Important facts :-Roman Catholic ,Born on - August 26,1910 -Skopje,Macedona

Original Name -Agnes Gonxha BojaxhiuKnown as a social worker ,

Founders of Missionaries of Charity , Died on September 7 ,1997 at the age of 87 at Calcutta , India, Cause of death is old age.She got the award Nobel Peace Prize.

Introduction

Mother Teresa was one of the most famous women ever lived on the face of the earth.She was a Catholic nun from Alabania.She became world famous through her social works in Calcutta.In 1950,she established the Missionaries of Charity.It was a congregation of sisters who worked for the poor and the downtrodden.She spent almost forty years in serving the poor.She also guided the expansion of the congregation in India and abroad.Mother Teresa was first introduced to the world by malcolm Muggeridge who wrote a book and directed a documentary on her charity works.The title of the book and the documentary was 'Some thing Beautiful for God'.She became well known to the people when she won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.Even during her life time she was called 'the living saint'.
Her Early Life

Her original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.Her parents was Albanian .Father was involved in Albanian Politics.When she was 8 years old her father died.In the child hood she heard the stories from the lives of missionaries and saints.By age of eighteen she joined the 'Sisters of Loreto' She went to Ireland to learn English.She came to India in 1929.She took her vows as a religious on May 24,1931.It was at this time she selected the name Teresa Then she went to Calcutta and worked in a school as a teacher.September 10,1946 was an important day in the life as it was on this day she decided to do something different.Mother Theresa decided to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them.She started her new missionary work in 1948 .She selected a particular mode of dress mainly because she wanted to lead a very simple life altogether .Becoming an Indian Citizen She began her life long work in the slums of Calcutta .In the begining of her new career,Mother teresa started a new school in Motijihil.
On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Vatican to start her own order. Vatican originally labeled the order as the Diocesan Congregation of the Calcutta Diocese, and it later came to known as the "Missionaries of Charity". The primary task of the Missionaries of Charity was to take care of those persons who nobody was prepared to look after.
The Missionaries of Charity, which began as a small Order with 12 members in Calcutta, today has more than 4,000 nuns running orphanages, AIDS hospices, charity centres worldwide, and caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine in Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Poland, and Australia. In 1965, by granting a Decree of Praise, Pope Paul VI granted Mother Teresa permission to expand her order to other countries. The order's first house outside India was in Venezuela. Presently, the "Missionaries of Charity" has presence in more than 100 countries.
Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions. These include the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize (1971), Nehru Prize for Promotion of International Peace & Understanding (1972), Balzan Prize (1978), Nobel Peace Prize (1979) and Bharat Ratna (1980).
On March 13, 1997, Mother Teresa stepped down from the head of Missionaries of Charity and died on September 5, 1997, just 9 days after her 87th birthday. Following Mother Teresa's death, the Holy See began the process of beatification, the second step towards possible canonization, or sainthood. This process requires the documentation of a miracle performed from the intercession of Mother Teresa. In 2002, the Vatican recognized as a miracle the healing of a tumor in the abdomen of an Indian woman, Monica Besra, following the application of a locket containing Teresa's picture. Monica Besra said that a beam of light emanated from the picture, curing the cancerous tumor. Mother Teresa was formally beatified by Pope John Paul II on October 19, 2003 with the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. A second miracle is required for her to proceed to canonization.