Mother teresa

Mother Teresa

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  • Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu (Mother Teresa) is born.

  • Leaves home to join the Loreto Sisters; she travelsto the convent at Rathfarnham near Dublin, Ireland.

  • Gonxha is sent to India to begin her novitiate inDarjeeling.

  • Gonxha takes her first vows

    she takes the name Teresa.

  • Sister Teresa takes her final vows in Loreto School,Darjeeling, India.

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    Begins teaching geography at St. Mary’s HighSchool in Calcutta, where she will also serve as principal of the school.

  • Inspiration Day

    while riding a train, Sister Teresa
    receives her call to help serve the poorest of the
    poor.

  • Sister Teresa requests permission to leave theLoreto Order

    To live alone and work with the poor
    in Calcutta; her first act is to open a school in the
    slum of Motijhil; on April 12, she receives permission
    from Pope Pius XII to remain a nun who will
    report directly to the archbishop of Calcutta; in
    August, she travels to Patna where she works with
    the American Medical Missionary Sisters for three
    months of intensive medical training; she returns
    to Calcutta in December; she will also become a
    citizen of India.

  • Moves in with the Gomes family at 14 Creek Lanein

    Subashni Das, a young Bengaligirl, becomes the first to join Mother Teresa.

  • Mother Teresa begins working with lepers of Calcutta.

  • Mother Teresa is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • Suffers heart attack while visiting in Rome.

  • Suffers second heart attack; doctors implant pacemaker.

  • Prepares to step down as head of Missionaries of Charity

    because of poor health; she is re-electedwith one dissenting vote—her own.

  • Sister Nirmala elected to succeed Mother Teresa

    as leader of Missionaries of Charity; Mother Teresadies after having a heart attack at the Motherhousein Calcutta.