Mother Teresa

Posted October 14, 2007, 11:21 am by Growing Bolder


Mother Teresa
Born: Aug. 27, 1910
Died: Sept. 5, 1997

A Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over forty years she ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying in Kolkata (Calcutta), India.

People around the world called her Angel of Mercy, but in India, she was simply the Mother -- mother of the poor, the suffering and the unwanted.

Her work among the poor made her one of the world's most famous people. Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in the present-day Republic of Macedonia.

• At age 63 (1973), she was awarded the Templeton Prize.
• At age 69 (1979), she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

After the Age of Sixty

• At age 70 (1980), she was awarded India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna.
• At age 86 (1996), she was made an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
• At age 88 (1997), at the time of her death, Mother Teresa was still working with the Missionaries of Charity. Her sisters numbered nearly 4,000 and could be found in 123 countries of the world.
• She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in October 2003

Quotes

• "I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."
• "Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. "
• "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."
• "Loneliness is the most terrible poverty."

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