Mother Teresa Road
Road Name: Mother Teresa road named after
Road Location: Victoria
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Summary:
Mother
Teresa as an Albanian missionary. She was born in Macedonia,
and eighteen years later, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
She
founded the Missionaries of
Charity, which was active in 133 countries. They run hospices and
homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis.
Mother
Teresa was the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize, and in December 2015,
she was made a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
Detailed description:
Mother
Teresa, by the age of 12, had become convinced that she would commit herself to
a religious life.
She
left home in 1928 at the age of 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland, to
learn English, with a view to becoming a missionary, because English was the
language the Sisters of Loreto used to teach school children in India.
She
arrived in India in 1929, and began her novitiate in Darjeeling . She took her first religious vows as a nun on 24 May
1931, and chose to be called Teresa.
She
soon began serving as a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Calcutta.
Although
she enjoyed teaching at the school, she was increasingly disturbed by the
poverty surrounding her in Calcutta, and wanted to do something about it.
She
began her missionary work with the poor in 1948, wearing a simple white
cotton sari decorated with a blue border.
Teresa
received Vatican permission
on 7 October 1950 to start the Missionaries of Charity. Its mission was to
care for, in her own words, "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the
crippled, the blind, the lepers, 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."
It
began as a small congregation with 13 members in Calcutta; by 1997 it had grown
to more than 4,000 sisters running orphanages, AIDS hospices and charity
centres.
As
the Missionaries of Charity took in increasing numbers of lost children, Mother
Teresa felt the need to create a home for them. In 1955 she opened the Nirmala
Shishu Bhavan, the Children's Home of the Immaculate Heart, as a haven for
orphans and homeless youth.
After
suffering from severe heart problems, this great lady died, on the 5th
of September 1997.
On
26 August 2010, The Indian Railways introduced
a new train, "Mother Express", named after Mother Teresa, and the
anniversary of her death has been designated as the International
Day of Charity by the United
Nations General Assembly.
Contributed by: Rohit Kashi
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