Mother Teresa was born in Albania in 1910. Influenced by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, she left her homeland at the age of 18 and came to India to devote herself to charitable work.In 1949, Mother Teresa founded a charitable organization, the Congregation of Mercy, in Calcutta and used it as a base for her charitable work in India for the relief of In 1949, Mother Teresa founded the Congregation of Charity in Calcutta and used it as a base to carry out charitable work in India for the benefit of orphans, the poor, the elderly and lepers.
Mother Teresa founded more than 50 schools, hospitals, poorhouses, youth centers and orphanages in India and other countries. She has received the Nehru Prize of India, the Joseph P. Kennedy Foundation Prize of the United States and the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, and was awarded the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
Trisha died of heart disease on September 5, 1997, at the age of 87 in Calcutta. Mother Teresa, whose real name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was an ethnic Albanian born in Skopje, the Ottoman province of Kosovo (the capital of the former Yugoslav state of Macedonia*** and). near the Stone Bridge in Skopje's Old Town. Her father, Nikolla Bojaxhiu, was a successful local grocery contractor, and her mother's name was Dranafila Bojaxhiu, the last daughter, and she was survived by her brother and sister (who later became a nun as well). The family spoke Albanian and was Catholic, and the city where she lived was mostly Muslim and Orthodox, with only a few Catholics.
The year Mother Teresa was born coincided with the Albanians rising up in rebellion. The Balkan Wars broke out two years later, and World War I began in 1914.
Mother Theresa rarely spoke of her childhood, when her father died at the age of 8 (1918), leaving her mother with the burden of the entire household and the care of three small children, and at the age of 10 (1920), when she went to Croesus to study. She has said that when she joined a Catholic children's charity at the age of 12, she felt that her future vocation was to help the poor and needy, and at the age of 15, she and her sister decided to go to India to receive missionary training work, and at the age of 18 she entered the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland and received missionary training work in Dublin and Darjeeling, India, and after three semesters, Sister Theresa After three semesters, Sister Teresa traveled to Calcutta, India, where she took up a teaching position at the Sisters of St. Mary of Loreto High School, primarily teaching geography.In 1931, Teresa was formally professed as a nun, and in May 1937, she decided to become a lifelong nun, and was renamed Sister Teresa, after and in the spirit of Saint Teresa, one of the most famous nuns of the 19th century in France.In the early 1940s, Sister Teresa was born at St. Mary of Loreto, and in the early 1970s, she was born at St. Mary of Loreto. In the early 1940s, Sister Teresa took up the post of principal at St. Mary's Loretto Religious High School, but at that time, the gap between the rich and the poor in India was so great that the school was peaceful, but outside the school, the streets were full of helpless lepers, beggars, and street children. on September 10, 1946, Sister Teresa went to the convent in Darjeeling, India, to rest for a year, and felt so strongly that she wanted to serve the heart of the poor, that when she returned to Kolkata, she requested to the Archbishop of the area to leave the school and the convent, but she did not do so. requesting to leave the school and the religious order, but permission was never granted.
In 1947, when East Pakistan gained independence from India, Calcutta was flooded with tens of thousands of refugees, mostly Hindus who feared persecution by the Muslims, and contagious diseases such as cholera and leprosy went unchecked and broke out in the streets, so that the streets of Calcutta, which were becoming more and more like a hell outside the high walls of the school, tormented Mother Theresa's heart, and she was able to leave the school and the convent after constant pleas to the Archbishop and the After repeated pleas to the Archbishop and the Vatican, in 1948 Pope Pius XII finally gave Mother Teresa permission to work as a free nun. He also gave her a community and residence to help the poor in need. Mother Teresa immediately went for medical training and sought help. In October 1950, Mother Teresa, together with twelve other sisters, founded the Missionaries of Charity; also known as the Franciscans, and changed the Church's nun's habit into the traditional Indian women's salon of white cloth trimmed in plain blue, which became the uniform of the Franciscan Sisters. One day, Sister Teresa was going to Bataan Hospital to discuss her work, when she found an old woman by the square close to the station, collapsed on the road as if she were dead. Sister Teresa squatted down and took a closer look: her feet were wrapped in rags and crawling with ants, her head seemed to have been bitten by a rat with a hole in it, leaving blood stains, and the area around the wound was full of flies and maggots. She hurriedly measured the old woman's breathing and pulse, and it seemed that she was still breathing. She chased away the flies and ants, and wiped away the blood and maggots. Deressa thought to herself, "If we leave her lying there, she'll die. So she abandoned her move to Bataan for the time being and asked for help to take the old woman to a nearby hospital. The hospital at first paid no attention to the old woman, who had no family, but the physician, at Mother Teresa's repeated entreaties, governed the old woman, and then told Mother Teresa, "She must be hospitalized for the time being, and when she is out of danger, she will then need to find a place to convalesce." Immediately after entrusting the patient to the hospital, Sister Teresa went to the health class at the city hall in the hope of providing a place for the indigent to recuperate. The head of the health class at the city office, a warm-hearted man, after listening carefully to Sister Teresa's request, took her to a famous Kali temple in Calcutta, promising to make a place behind the temple after the pilgrimage of the devotees available free of charge. At first they were strongly opposed by the Brahmins of the Hindu diocese, on the grounds that Mother Teresa was not an Indian. However, Mother Teresa defied the opposition, and continued to rescue many of the sick and dying in the streets and wash them in the shelter, giving them a place to rest, including Hindu monks.
In less than a day since finding this landing place, the nuns had settled more than thirty of the poorest and most suffering people. One of them, an old man, died in the evening of the day he moved in, and before he died, he took Deressa's hand and whispered in Bengali, "I lived like a dog, and I'm dying like a human being, thank you."
It was impossible to save all the dying people of Calcutta just by the work of Mother Teresa and the nuns, but Mother Teresa she had her own unique view that human misery does not exist in poverty, sickness or hunger, the real misery is that no one reaches out to help people when they are sick or in poverty, and even if they die, there should be a place for them to return to on their deathbed, and this is how Teresa spread the love of the Lord to the dying. In 1948, at the age of 38, Mother Teresa left the Loretto Convent in Ireland and came to Calcutta, India. One of the first things she did was to take off the blue doily that the Loretto nuns wore in favor of a white cotton sari that was often worn by common women in India.
Mother Teresa began her work in the slums behind the station. It was full of ramshackle huts and dirty children in rags. One day, a Bengali-speaking child, who had only one leg and was still bleeding from the amputation, asked Mother Teresa for something. Mother Teresa was about to take medicine to dress him when the child said he wanted something to eat, making a show of eating as he spoke. At this time she had only five rupees with her, so she apologized and said to the child, "I am a poor nun and I can only dress your wound." As she was about to apply the medicine, the child suddenly grabbed the medicine, screamed, "Give me this," and ran off on his crutches toward the slums. Wanting to know what was going on, Sister Theresa followed the child into a small hut, where, in the darkness, she could faintly see a woman lying on a plank, and beside her a baby and a girl of about five years of age, all three of them thin and weak, with dull eyes. She spoke to them in Bengali and learned that the child's name was Babu and that he was eight years old, that the woman was his mother and was suffering from tuberculosis, and that the other two children in the shack were his younger siblings. Sister Theresa could only give them the vitamin pills she had brought with her, and the woman was so grateful that she bowed to her with clasped hands and said, "There is also the old woman here who is ill, please see her too." When Mother Teresa heard this, she was shaken to the core: why would the poor have such kind hearts? They themselves were suffering from a disease, and they still cared for others! Mother Teresa This is a name that moves and honors all people. This is a woman who makes people feel warm. There is no worldly standard to describe her. Her motherly smile makes you feel that your heart is in the right place. Mother Teresa, a silent activist, bore the suffering of the whole world with her small body.
When she chose to appease the suffering of the world as the goal of her life, she was destined to have nothing to do with jeweled faces, wind and flowers. But the world seemed warm because of her. She expressed herself with a simple, kind heart,
In 1931, she chose the name "Teresa" as her Christian name. Teresa is the name of a Spanish saint who, from the age of 18, set her sights on her goal and never doubted it.
She was never one to hold the hands of the poor and smile for the cameras. She stayed away from the media and really went to the edge of disaster, to poor people.
In 1948, she led the creation of charities that specialized in caring for the life-threatening and the homeless, and in 1950, she founded Leper City, which actively rescued lepers.
Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, but her accomplishments go far beyond secular definitions. There is no way to enumerate what she did, and wherever she traveled, everyone called her name.
In 1997 Mother Teresa completed her duties on earth and left us. But on her tombstone, these words are inscribed, and it is good to read them as if she were with us:
Love another as I have loved U. The best day is today
The easiest thing to do is to make a mistake
The biggest obstacle is fearThe worst mistake is self-loathing
The root of all evil is selfishness
The best leisure activity is work
The heaviest discouragement is discouragement
The best teachers are children
The highest priority need is communication
The most pleasurable thing to do is to help others
The most important Nobel Peace Prize, in 1979, was also awarded to her. At the time, she declined the awards banquet and the prize. The media asked about her, "What might we do to promote world peace?" . She replied, "Go home and love your family." Mother Teresa suffered her first heart attack in 1983 while visiting Pope John Paul II in Rome, received an artificial heart during her second heart attack in 1989, and after returning from a visit to Mexico in 1991, she contracted pneumonia and her health deteriorated. She then resigned from the Franciscans on the grounds that she was no longer able to care for the sick around the clock like the other nuns, and in a secret vote of the religious order, the other nuns and brothers voted that Sister Theresa was to remain at the Franciscans to lead them.
On March 13, 1997, her health deteriorated again and she decided to withdraw from the Franciscans. in April, Mother Teresa fell and injured her collarbone. in August, she received a heart transplant, but her health did not improve. She died on September 5 of that year at the age of 87 years. Mother Teresa left behind 4,000 religious sisters, more than 100,000 volunteers, and 610 charitable works in 123 countries. A state funeral was held in her honor in India. British author Christopher Hitchens wrote a book on Mother Teresa called The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. He made the statement, "What you know about Mother Teresa is not partly false, but all of it." The book makes the following accusation about Mother Teresa:
Calcutta, the Indian city where Mother Teresa served, was hell on earth: it was not, Calcutta was a modern big city, and most of the articles that reported on Mother Teresa exaggerated the extent of the poverty in Calcutta. Mother Teresa devoted her life to Calcutta: No, Mother Teresa spent most of her time in the Vatican or visiting other countries, she was rarely in Calcutta. Mother Teresa's charitable organization helped countless poor people: otherwise, despite the large donations Mother Teresa received, very little of the money was spent on the poor, and Chartjee's book Mother Teresa: The Final Verdict details the major disasters that have plagued India for decades, with Mother Teresa's organization being almost completely silent on the issue. Mother Teresa's interviews about the orphanages, shelters ......, etc. that she ran were often made up by the nuns and did not exist at all. Where do all those donations go? No one knows because Mother Teresa's church is the only charitable organization in all of India that does not open its books. Much of the money was no doubt spent on expanding the Church. Mother Teresa's nursing home had no ambulance, but her sisters had a special car to attend prayer meetings. Many of the people who donated to Mother Teresa thought they were giving money to buy medical equipment, build hospitals, or hire doctors, but they were not. Even at the height of her fame, Mother Teresa's nursing home was still using the most unprofessional equipment. Mother Teresa was a selfless humanist: on the contrary, she was a bigoted and cruel fundamentalist. Mother Teresa had an unhealthy admiration for "suffering", which she considered to be the most direct way of approaching God. Therefore, her "sanatoriums" were not for the treatment of the poor, but for their agonizing deaths. Mother Teresa's sanatorium had no modern medical equipment, was staffed by nuns with no medical training, used unsterilized syringes, used no painkillers, and had no intention of curing anyone. Because the nuns forbade the use of painkillers, many of the patients died in the most agonizing conditions. Mother Teresa's only concern was missionary work, and she often baptized Muslims against the wishes of her patients, and Chatterjee's book describes in detail Mother Teresa's unwillingness to allow patients to stay in her sanatoriums, even when it was a matter of life and death. Mother Teresa had supreme wisdom: Mother Teresa lived in a world of imagination, disconnected from reality. She was strongly opposed to abortion and birth control, and her stubbornness could only be described by the word stupidity. Mother Teresa performed miracles and was thus canonized as a saint by the Catholic Church: the alleged miracles were later proven to be faked. Christopher息金斯, a journalist and well-known atheist anti-religionist, argued that the purpose of Mother Teresa's organization was to advocate suffering by way of faith, not to help people in need. At a 1981 press conference, a reporter asked, "Are you teaching that the poor should endure suffering?" Mother Teresa replied, "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their fate and to share their suffering with the suffering Christ. I think the world would be better served by the poor suffering."
Chatterjee said Mother Teresa's image as a "helper of the poor" misled the public. In her largest shelter, there are only 200 or 300 people. The Assemblies of God, another Puritan charitable organization in Kolkata, distributes 18,000 free meals a day, far more than all of Mother Teresa's shelters combined.
Chatterjee said many of Mother Teresa's institutions are missionary only and do no charitable activities. In Papua New Guinea, for example, the eight facilities house no one and all of their funding goes to the apostolate.