Mother teresa of calcutta

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

By anna.aguilera

  • Born

    Born
    She was born on the 26 of august of 1910 on the Skopie (Republic of Macedonia). She's real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Her fathers are Nikölle Bojaxhiu and Dranafile Bernai.

  • Studies

    Studies
    She taught in Dublin and Darjeeling before accepting the votes in 1937, after, she was director of a Catholic school in Calcutta, where the presence of dying in the streets of the city led her to ask permission to leave her post in the convent and dedicate herself since 1948 to care for the sick.

  • Missioners of charity

    Missioners of charity
    Missioners of charity is a catholic religious congregation founded in 1946. She decided to found the orden of the Missionaries of Charity, and that is how they began their works. The official language of the missionaries of charity is English.

  • Help to lepers

    Help to lepers
    At the 23 of november in 1950, Mother Teresa began helping people with leprosy. Those who were the most disadvantaged and needed a diferent and special attention and were not reciving it, so she acted fast, and i worked.

  • Missionary Brothers of Charity

    Missionary Brothers of Charity
    The Missionaries of Charity Brothers were founded on the 25 of March 1963 in Calcutta, and are a congregation of pontifical right. She created the male "Missionary Brothers of Charity" with Fray Joseph Langford.The Missionary of Charity Brothers was founded by Mother Teresa in Calcutta in 1963.

  • First Assistance House out of India

    First Assistance House out of India
    In 1965, specificly the 25 of november, she created the First Assistance House outside of India. it was made in Venezuela, she thought that Venezuela i was the acerted option of place to help, and she was right.

  • Nobel Peace Prize

    Nobel Peace Prize
    Mother Teresa de Calcutta received the Nobel Peace Prize on a day like today, specifically the 8 of July in 1979, in recognition of her help to all the poor of the world, that she described as incarnations of Jesus. VIDEO'S LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I36Nistc9wE

  • Death

    Death
    She died on the 5 of September 1997, when she was 87 years old. She died in Calcuta, India. She died because of a cardiac arrest.
    The Government of India granted her the honor of holding a state funeral and her body was buried in the Motherhouse of the Missionaries of Charity.

  • Declarate Saint

    Declarate Saint
    Nineteen years after her death Mother Teresa, revered for her work with the poor in India, was declarated saint by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican. Francis said Mother Teresa had defended the unborn, sick and abandoned.