Mother Teresa - Quick facts

 

 

 

 

 

Mother Teresa's original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.

Mother Teresa was born August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia.

Mother Teresa’s sari (outfit) only cost $1.00. It was really simple.

In 2003, six years after her death, Mother Teresa began a passage to sainthood with her beatification by Pope John Paul II.

Among the 124 Awards Received:
Padmashree Award (from the President of India) August 1962
Pope John XXIII Peace Prize January 1971
John F. Kennedy International Award September 1971
Jawahalal Nehru Award for International Understanding November 1972
Templeton Prize for "Progress in Religion" April 1973
Nobel Peace Prize December 1979
Bharat Ratna (Jewel of India) March 1980
Order of Merit (from Queen Elizabeth) November 1983
Gold Medal of the Soviet Peace Committee August 1987
United States Congressional Gold Medal June 1997

She was an Albanian Catholic nun who came to India and founded the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata.

Mother Teresa spread the word to President Ronald Reagan about a famine. After he got the word, the U.S. government hurried to Ethiopian (where the famine was) with food and medicine.

She is probably best remembered as Mother Teresa of Calcutta, where she set up the headquarters of her own missionary sisters

She took the name Teresa after Saint Teresa of Lisieux, Patron Saint of missionaries.

Mother Teresa told Princess Diana "to heal other people you must suffer yourself."

In 1980 Mother Teresa also founded the Corpus Christi Movement for priests desiring to share in her spirituality.

She sacrificed her entire life for the cause of the downtrodden, underprivileged, diseased and the needy in the society.

At the time of Mother Teresa's death, The Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity numbered 3,914 members, and were established in 594 communities in 123 countries of the world.