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Mother Teresa's life accomplishments.
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Born as Agnes Gionxhu Bejuxhiu ans in Skopje in the former Yugoslavia.
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Begins noviate training in Loretto Abbey, Dublin, Ireland, and takes name Sister Teresa
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Arrives in Calcutta, India, and becomes a teacher at St. Mary's High School
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Moti Jheel
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Mother Teresa is joined by pupils, to help men, women, and children dying on the streets who had been rejected by local hospitals. The group rented a room so they could care for helpless people otherwise condemned to die in the gutter.
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"The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after.
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Opens orphanage
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Begins her work with lepers for which her order becomes well known around the world
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Wins first prize for work among the poor: Padma Shri award
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Uses the $25,000 to build a leper colony
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For working with the destitute and dying
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Persuades the Israelis and Palestinians to cease fire long enough to rescue 37 retarded children.
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Mother Teresa established the first hospice for AIDS victims in New York.
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Mother Teresa returned for the first time to her native Albania and opened a home in Tirana.
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At a National Prayer Breakfast, Mother Teresa challenged the audience on the topic of family life and abortion. Where she said, "Please don’t kill the child. I want the child. Give the child to me."
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November 18, 1996, Mother Teresa received the honorary U.S. citizenship.
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Succeeded by Sister Nirmala
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Dies of a massive heart attack in Calcutta at the age of 87
