Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa
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Early Days

• She was born on 27th August 1910.Her real name
  was Agnes Gionxhu Bejuxhiu and she was the
  youngest child of Nikola, a politician, and Drane
  Bejuxhiu in Skopje in Yugoslavia.

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The Decision of nuns

• Age 12 - decided on a religious life.
• Age 18 joined the Sisters of Loretto a roman
  catholic order .
• Age 21 takes first religious vows and chooses
  the name therse du lisieux after the saint of
  missionaries .

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Indian Slums
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Working with the poor

• On September10th 1964 she got the calling to work
  with the poor. She began missionary work with the
  poor of Calcutta. She replaced the loretto habit
  with a simple white cotton chira with a blue
  border.
• In 1948 she took Indian citizenship and opened
  her first school in Motjhil to serve the homeless
  and starving. It was difficult at first as there
  was no money and she had to beg for food and
  other supplies. She did some medical training in
  Paris.

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Missionaries of Charity

• October 7th 1950 Vatican permission to set up
  Missionaries of Charity, to care for the hungry,
  the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind
  and lepers.
• She started with 13 nuns now there are over 4,000
  

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Homes for the poor

• 1952 opens Nirmal Hriday pure heart for the
  dying.
• 1955 opens Nirmala Shishua Bhavan immaculate
  heart for lost children or children's home.
• 1957 opens Shanti Nagar city of peace a
  home for lepers.
• Her order became well known for this work!

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International Charity
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Where she helped

• 1982 siege of Beirut

• 1985 - Ethopia

• 1986 - Chernobyl

• 1988 - Armenia

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Failing health

• 1983 1st heart attack whilst visiting Pope John
  Paul II.
• 1989 2nd heart attack, fitted with a pace
  maker.
• 1992 goes into hospital in USA for pneumonia
  and heart problems.
• 1993 In May she broke 3 ribs, In August she
  suffers from malaria and in September she had
  surgery for a blocked blood vessel.
• 1996 In April she fell and broke her collar
  bone and in August she suffered malarial fever
  and more heart problems.

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The final days

• March 13th 1997 she stepped down as head nun
  and is replaced by Sister Nirnala.

• September 5th 1997 She died of a massive heart
  attack in Calcutta at the age of 87.
• She died the day I was born
• Her funeral was on the 13th of September 1997.
  She was given a state funeral

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Pictures of her funeral
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Mother Teresa meets
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Awards that she got

• 1962 - Padma shri award
• 1971 - Pope John XXIII peace prize
• 1975 - Albert Schweiter international prize
  
• 1976 - Pacem in Terris award
  
• 1978 - Balzon prize
  
• 1979 - Noble Peace Prize
  
• 1983 - Order of Merit
  
• 1985 - Medal of Freedom
  
• 1994 - Golden Honour of the Nation Albania
  
  
• 1996 - Honorary citizenship of USA
• 1998 - Pope John Paul II begins the process to
  make her a saint.
• This process is still going on !
  
  

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A presentation by Adam Hinson