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Mother Teresa
ByKayla Yeager
Born
• August 27, 1910 as Agnes Gionxhu Bejuxhiu
• In Skopje, Yugoslavia
Nun Training
1928 Became Roman
Catholic Loretto nunAt Loretto Abbey in
Dublin, Ireland
Becomes Sister Teresa
Teacher
• 1929
Taught Geography at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta, India
1937
• Takes final vows as a nun
The Calling
• September 1946
On a train ride to get cure for suspected tuberculosis, she received calling to serve among the poor.
Leaves the convent to serve poor.
1947-1948
• Permitted to leave order and moves to slum to start school
• Transfers her citizenship from Yugoslavia to India
• Gets Medical training in Paris, France
Charity
• 1950 Founds the
Missionaries of Charity1952 Opens Nirmal
Hriday(Pure heart)1953 Opens Orphanage
Picture of Nirmal Hriday
AWARDS
• 1962- Wins the Padma Shri award
• 1971-Receives the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize
• 1979- Award Nobel Peace Prize
• 1985-Award Medal of Freedom
Injuries
• 1983-First Heart attack while visiting Pope John Paul II
• 1989-Suffers second heart attack
• 1992-Congestive heart failure
• 1993-falls and breaks three ribs in may
• 1993-surgery for blocked blood vessel in September
• 1996-Breaks collarbone in April
Malarial fever in August
Step Down
• Steps down as head of her order and was succeeded by Sister Narnala
Death• She Died on
September 5, 1997 from a heart attack at the age of 87
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