" A peaceful soul, a heart of gold, she was the woman with love to give. She  strived to give a poverty free world with a touch of humanity "



 

26 Aug 1910 :Agnes Gonxha Beiaxhiu born(Mother Teressa), in Skopje in Macedonia, the youngest of three children of an Albanian family.  

1928:At the age of 18  she entered the order of the sister of our lady of Loreto.She joined a religious order and took the name Mother Teressa.

Young Mother Images

1929:She arrived in Calcutta (now Kolkata,India) to teach at St.Mary's High school.While travelling in a train to Darjeeling to recover from suspected tuberculosis she said she received a message from God "to serve Him among the poorest of the poor". The rest is History.

"I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"
--1974 Interview
 

24 May 1937
Takes final vows as a nun in Darjeeling

1947
Most important journey of her life to Darjeeling where she receives a call from Jesus to serve him among the poorest of poor and to live with them 

1948
Opens first slum school in Calcutta.

1950
Missionaries of Charity established.

1952
Opens Nirmal Hriday, or Pure heart, a home for dying

1962
Receives the Padmashri award for distinguished service -- her first award for her humanitarian work

"I choose the poverty of our poor people. But I am grateful to receive (the Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of the blind, of the lepers, of all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared-for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."

Excerpt from the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

1971
Pope John Paul VI awards Mother peace prize

1979
Gets the Nobel Peace Prize

1980
Awarded India's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna.

1983
Has a heart attack while in Rome visiting Pope John Paul II Queen Elizabeth II awards Order of Merit in New Delhi
 

1985
Gets Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian award

1986
Narrow escape in an air crash in Tanzania
 

1989
Suffers second heart attack; doctors implant pacemaker

1990
Wants to relinquish charge of Missionaries of Charity on account of poor health. But she is re-elected with only one dissenting vote -- her own.

Sweet and loving mother

1991
Suffers pneumonia in Mexico, and undergoes heart surgery in the United States.
 

1993
Breaks three ribs in fall in Rome Another surgery in Calcutta to clear a blocked heart vessel

 1996 Fractures her left collar bone and is hospitalised , 22 Aug Suffers heart failure, admitted to Calcutta`s Woodlands Nursing Home ,16 Sep Injures head in fall while getting out of bed; doctors detect spot on brain, 16 Nov Granted honorary American citizenship, 22 Nov,Taken to Woodlands Nursing Home with irregular heartbeat,29 Nov,Undergoes angioplasty surgery to remove two blockages in major  coronary arteries

1997 13 March Sister Nirmala elected to succeed Mother Teresa as leader of Missionaries of Charity,16 May Arrives in Italy for a two-month tour and is given oxygen at Rome airport because of weariness,18 June Meets Princess Diana for fourth time at Missionaries of Charity residence in New York,5 Sept Mother dies following a heart attack at her religious order`s headquarters in Calcutta .

Mother leaves for the heaven

Two Angels Princess Diana and Mother Teressa meets in heaven

 "The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here."

 She is not only the Mother of poors, suffering,unwanted,lonely and rejected ones but every human being.Her mission was to serve free the downtrodden from hunger, pain and suffering. She dedicated her whole life caring for the mankind and spreading God's most valuable message "Love All".

      A loving and caring mother

Quotes by The Mother          Stories about Mother

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"There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives - the pain, the loneliness. We must have the courage to recognize it. The poor you may have right in your own family.Find them. Love them".  Mother Teressa

Mother the earth is missing you, come back the earth needs you. You are a true angel we will always remember the love and care you have given us. You will always be alive in all of our hearts and memories. We all pray for your soul to rest in peace.

Mother Oh mother come back

A poem written by me

(Coming soon)