Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

 Mother Teresa was born in Macedonia , on August 26 , 1910. Her family was of Albania descent. At the age of twelve ,she felt strongly the call of God . She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ . At the age of eighteen she left her parental and joined the Sisters of Loreto , and Irish community of nuns with missions in India , where on May 24 , 1931 , she took her initial vows as a nun . From 1931 to 1948  Mother Teresa taught at St.  Mary's  High School in Calcutta , but the suffering and poverty  she glimpsed outside the convent walls  made such a deep impression she received permession from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta .

On October 7 , 1950 , Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, " The Missionaries of Charity " , whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after .

The Society of Missionaries  has spread all the over the world , including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.

Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed troughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions , including the Pope John  XXIII peace prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize ( 1979) and the Templeton and Mag say awards.

Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997.

ROSA PARKS