Mother Teresa of Calcuta

By yennny pava

  • 1910

    1910
    She was born in Skopje, a former city of Albania, now part of the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

  • 1919

    1919
    His father died, and his mother took the reins of the family by putting a business in order to continue with the education of their children.

  • 1928

    1928
    At age 18, he entered the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto of India, based in Ireland. There he received the name of Sister Maria Teresa (by Saint Teresa of Lisieux).

  • 1929

    1929
    She started his journey to India, arrived in Calcutta, and began his novitiate.

  • 1931

    1931
    I performed his vows of poverty, chastity and obedience as a nun.

  • 1937

    1937
    Sister Teresa made her perpetual profession, then, as she said herself, in "wife of Jesus" for "all eternity." From that moment on she was called Mother Teresa. For 20 years I taught at Santa Maria College in Calcutta, India.

  • 1946

    1946
    After God's call, he put himself at the service of the poorest.

  • 1948

    1948
    She left the convent, carrying a white sari decorated with blue margins substituting the habit of Loreto. His new congregation was called Missionaries of Charity.

  • 1950

    1950
    She was trained as a nurse for three months in Patna with the medical Missionary Sisters of North America and began helping people who were sick with leprosy.

  • 1952

    1952
    She inaugurated the first home for the dying in Calcutta.

  • 1962

    1962
    She won the award, "Padma Shiri", granted by the Indian government.

  • 1963

    1963
    Pope Paul VI placed the congregation of the Missionaries of Charity under the control of the papacy and I authorized mother Teresa to expand the religious order in other countries.

  • 1969

    1969
    She won the "Jawaharlal Nehru Award", for International understanding.

  • 1979

    1979
    She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • 1984

    1984
    She founded the Missionary Fathers of charity.

  • 1992

    1992
    An Indian citizen wrote his official biography.

  • 1993

    1993
    She received the "Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana" award

  • 1995

    1995
    She received the artistic award "Dayawati Modi".

  • 1997

    1997
    She resigned as chief of the Missionaries of Charity. She died in Calcutta at 87 years old. The government of India granted him the honor of holding a state funeral and his body was buried in the mother house of the Missionaries of Charity. His grave quickly became a place of pilgrimage and prayer.

  • 2003

    2003
    Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II.