Mother Teresa's Life
Mother Teresa has helped so many people who were sick and poor in her life time.
She has opened orphanages, leper colonies and even a home for the dying. Mother Teresa has done many more generous and important things in her life time too. Here is a time line showing them.
She has opened orphanages, leper colonies and even a home for the dying. Mother Teresa has done many more generous and important things in her life time too. Here is a time line showing them.
- Aug 26, 1910 - Born as Agnes Gionxhu Bejuxhiu ans in Skopje in the former Yugoslavia
- 1928 - Becomes Roman Catholic Loretto nun and begins noviate training in Loretto Abbey, Dublin, Ireland, takes name Sister Teresa
- 1929 - Arrives in Calcutta, India, becomes a teacher at St. Mary's High School
- 1937 - Takes final vows as a nun
- 1948 - Permitted to leave order and moves to slums to start school
- 1948 - Transfers her citizenship from Yugoslavia to India. Left the convent to
- work alone in the slums. Receives medical training in Paris
- 1950 - Founds the Missionaries of Charity
- 1952 - Opens Nirmal Hriday ("Pure Heart"), home for the dying
- 1953 - Opens orphanage
- 1957 - Begins her work with lepers for which her order becomes well known around the world
- 1958 - Order's first facility outside of Calcutta opens in Drachi, India
- 1962 - Wins first prize for work among the poor: Padma Shri award
- 1965 - The Catholic Church grants the order permission to organize missions outside of India
- 1971 - Receives the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and uses the $25,000 to build a leper colony
- 1979 - Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for work with destitute and dying
- 1983 - Has heart attack when visiting Pope John Paul II
- 1985 - Receives ‘Medal of Freedom’
- 1989 - Suffers second heart attack, fitted with pacemaker
- 1990 - Re-elected as superior general of her order of the Missionaries for Charity, even though she wanted to step down
- 1992 - Enters the hospital in La Jolla, California for treatment of pneumonia and
- congestive heart failure
- 1993 - Falls and breaks three ribs in May, hospitalized for malaria in August, undergoes surgery for blocked blood vessel in September
- 1996 - Falls and breaks collarbone in April, suffers malarial fever and left ventricle failure in August, receives honorary citizenship on November sixteenth
- March 13, 1997 - Steps down as the head of her order
- September 5, 1997 - Dies of a large heart attack in Calcutta at the age of 87