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