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Specialized Vocabulary:
Nun- A women who has devoted her life to God
Catholic- A Christian faith
Missionary- Someone who goes to a foreign country to tell people about God
Nobel Peace Prize- a prize given to people who do things that promote peace
Sari- a traditional Indian dress that wraps around the body
Convent- a retreat for nuns -
Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia. Her given name was Agnes.
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I think Mother Teresa wanted to help the poor because she grew up in a family that helped the poor.
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Mother Theresa was a nun who did missionary work among the poor in India. She was born in Skopje, Macedonia.
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Mother Teresa chose to go to India as a nun to work at a school there.
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Mother Teresa, Sister Teresa then, took her first vows as a nun, vowing poverty, chastity, and obedience.
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Because Mother Teresa knew how to teach, the first thing she did when she went among the poor was to start a little school to teach the children how to read Bengali. The children were rewarded with soap bars if they did good work.
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Mother Theresa started an organization called the Missionaries of Charity
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Mother Teresa got an abandoned building and made it a home for the dying. It was called Nirmal Hriday, or the Place of the Pure Heart.
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Mother Teresa chose to go out to the streets to live among the poor.
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Because she helped the poor, she received a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Mother Teresa's life is a great example of servitude, both to the poor and to God.
