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Mother Teresa is born and then baptised the next day.
Mother Teresa is born in Skopje, Macedonia on 26th August in 1910 with the name Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. She is baptised the following day. -
Agnes receives a strong call from God.
Agnes feels a powerful call by god at the Church of Black Madonna. She immediately knows she has to become a missionary to spread the love of Christ. -
Agnes sets off to Ireland to become a nun.
Agnes decides to become a nun so she sets off to Ireland and joins the Sisters of Loreto. She takes the name Sister Mary Teresa after her favourite saint Saint Thérèse of Lisieux. -
Sister Teresa takes her final vows and the name Mother Teresa.
Sister Teresa takes her final vows to the Sisters of Loreto in 1937. She also takes upon the title “Mother” as was the custom for Loreto nuns so she now becomes known as Mother Teresa. Afterwards, she is sent to Calcutta to teach at St. Mary’s High School. This is an all girls school and most of the girls are from middle-class families. -
Mother Teresa is suspected of having Tuberculosis so she is sent to Darjeeling to rest.
In 1946, Mother Teresa is suspected of having Tuberculosis so she is sent to India. In September 1946, Mother Teresa experiences a call within a call “to serve the poorest of the poor,” Thus, she requests the permission to leave the Sisters of Loreto to the serve the poor people of Calcutta. -
Mother Teresa is granted approval to leave the Sisters of Loreto.
In January 1948, Mother Teresa is granted approval to leave the Sisters of Loreto and to move to the slums of Calcutta and set up her first school. She buys a simple blue and white sari, that she would wear the rest of her life. She takes six months of basic medical training and begins her open-air school. She also opens an dying destitute in a run-down building by convincing the government to
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Mother Teresa wins canonical recognition for a new congregation.
In October 1950, Mother Teresa wins canonical recognition for a new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, which she establishes with only a few members. -
Mother Teresa wins the Padma Shri Award.
In 1962, Mother Teresa wins the Padma Shri Award for her humanitarian work. She uses the money from this prize to establish dozens of new homes. -
Mother Teresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
In 1979, Mother Teresa wins the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her humanitarian work. -
Mother Teresa receives a lot of criticism.
Mother Teresa votes a “no” to the Irish referendum to end the country’s ban on divorce and remarriage which she gets a lot of criticism for. -
Mother Teresa dies of heart failure.
After a lot of years of bad health, including lung, kidney and heart problems, Mother Teresa dies at the age of 87, on 5th September in 1997 because of heart failure.