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in Albania
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At age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English with the view of becoming a missionary
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Began her novitiate in Darjeeling, in the lower Himalayas,[24] where she learnt Bengali and taught at St. Teresa's School near her convent
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Teresa took her first religious vows. She choose to be named the patron saint of missionaries
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Teresa took her solemn vows while she was a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta.
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a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which manages homes for people dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis
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at the height of the Siege of Beirut, Teresa rescued 37 children trapped in a front-line hospital by brokering a temporary cease-fire between the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas.
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India, Calcuta
