Mother Teresa

2. Family…
Name : Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Date of birth : 27th Aug 1910
Place : Skopje, Yugoslavia
Father’ Name : Nikolle Bojaxhiu
Mother’s Name : Drana
Brother’s Name : Lazar
Sister’s Name : Aga
With Brother & Sister

3. With Sister Aga..

4. At school…

5. - 1928, at 18, Agnes traveled to Loreto Abbey in
Ireland to learn English and begin her life as a
Loreto nun.
- When she was 21, Agnes took her first
vow(promise)
- Changed her name to "Teresa" after St. Teresa of
Avila, patroness of the Missionaries
- Now she was called - Sister Teresa
Sister Teresa…

6. Sister Teresa…

7. 1928 :. She came to India to teach Geography
and History at St. Mary's, a Loreto school, in
Calcutta, West Bengal.
1937 : She became the head teacher and took
her final vows(promises) as a Loreto nun.
The Teacher….

8. - On 10th Sep 1946, Teresa was quietly praying on a train
traveling from Calcutta to Darjeeling then God spoke to her.
- Sister Teresa returned to the convent in Calcutta and
requested for leave to work in the slums, but her request was
refused.
- After two years she was given special permission from the
Loreto Order to work in the slums.
- Sister Teresa finally left the Loreto convent on August 16th
1948.
'Day of Inspiration’ ….

9. 1950 : On 7
th
Oct she started the
Missionaries of charity.
As the leader, Sister Teresa became
Mother Teresa
Sister Teresa to Mother Teresa.

10. * Wake up at 0430 hrs.
* Two hours prayer with all sisters.
* Light Breakfast.
* Walk out to work in the slums, dressed with blue
bordered white sari and a bag on the shoulder.
* Devoted time management :
- teach the children,
- work with the sick, the dying or those suffering
from leprosy.
- collect, prepare and give out food.
- raise the funds for the needy people.
Daily working routine

11. 1948 : She dedicated the majority of her life in
helping the poorest of the poor in India, thus
gaining her the name "Saint of the Gutters.“
She received medical training and education in
Paris.
She started a dispensary, handing out bandages,
medicines and food, donated by people
Services….

12. 1948 : On 21
st
Dec Started a own school under
trees.
1949 : Mr Michel Gomashen donated a house
and given full support.
Some complaints lodged against her.
Services….

13. 1952 : Nirmal Hruday - House for the dying
people.
Opened Shishu Bhavan – Children’s home.
1963 : Started Brother’s Wing :
1969 : Opened Shanti Nagar – City of peace
Opened Prem Nivas - A leprosy village.
1971 : Nirmal Canady home near Dumdum
airport, Calcutta for refuges/victims of Pakistan –
Bangladesh war.
Services….

16. 1969 : British journalist, Malcolm Muggeridge,
made a film 'Something Beautiful for God' about
Mother Teresa and her work..
The film made Mother Teresa famous all over the
world. Donations poured in to help her work.
Something Beautiful for God

17. 119 leprosy centers established.
1,50,000 leprosy people are treated.
Today Missionaries of Charity and their co-
workers run more than 450 centers in over 100
countries to help the poor
Her Achievements…

18. With Diana, Princess of Wales,
Interaction…

19. With Pope Paul VI  
Interaction…

21. 1962- PADMASHRI AWARD

22. 1962- MAGSAYSAY AWARD

23. 1971 : Pope John XXIII Peace Prize awarded by Pope
Paul VI
Recognization

24. 1972- NEHRU AWARD

25. 1973- TEMPLETON

26. 1979 : That devotion towards the poor won her respect
throughout the world and the Nobel Peace Prize. 
Recognization

27. Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech :
"I choose the poverty of our poor
people. But I am grateful to receive (the
Nobel) in the name of the hungry, the
naked, the homeless, of the crippled, of
the blind, of the lepers, of all those
people who feel unwanted, unloved,
uncared-for throughout society, people
that have become a burden to the
society and are shunned by everyone."

28. 1979- BALZAN PRIZE

29. 1980- BHARAT RATNA

30. 1985- MEDAL OF FREEDOM

31. Special Award for Excellence from the Indo-American Society at
the headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta Sunday,
March 16, 1997.
Recognization

33. 1983 : She suffered a heart attack during a visit with
Pope John Paul II.

34. 1989 : She suffered another, and more serious,
heart attack and then a pacemaker was installed

35. 1997 : On 13
th
Sep, slept in peace.

36. Canada's Prime Minister Jean Chretien's wife, Aline Chretien,
Last Journey…

37. India's Sonia Gandhi,
Last Journey…

38. Sisters of the Missionaries of Charity pray during the funeral mass
for Mother Teresa, the founder of their order, in the Netagi Indoor
Stadium in Calcutta, Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997.
Last Journey…

39. Prayer for peace
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace
Where there is hatred…let me sow love.
Where there is injury…pardon.
Where there is doubt…faith.
Where there is despair…hope.
Where there is darkness…light.
Where there is sadness…joy.
O Divine master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled…as to console,
To be understood…as to understood
To be loved…as to love,
For
It is in giving…that we receive,
It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned,
It is in dying..that we are born to eternal life.
Her Literature…

40. Her Literature…
MESSAGE OF LOVE...
The poor are great people
The poor do not need our sympathy and our pity.
The poor need our love and compassion.
They give us much more than we give them.
During a terrible time when millions of refugees fled to India,
we asked for help and many volunteers came and spent some months with us,
just loving, serving, giving tender love and care to our people.
On their departure, they said they had received much more than they had given.
In Calcutta, some time ago, we went out at night and picked up four or five people
from the street and took them to our Home for the Dying. One of them was in a very
bad condition and I wanted to take care of her myself. I did for her all that my love
could do. When I put her into bed, she took hold of my hand and there was such a
wonderful smile on her face. She said one word: "Thank you" and she died. She gave
me much more than I had given her. She gave me her grateful heart and I thought: what
would I have done in her place? My answer was: I would have tried to draw some
attention to myself, I would have said: I am hungry or I am cold or I am dying. But she,
she was so great, she was so beautiful in her giving. The poor are great people.

41. Quotes :
“ Nakedness is not only for a piece of clothing;
nakedness is lack of human dignity, and also that
beautiful virtue of purity, and lack of that respect for
each other.”
“ I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick
and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless -
to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor.
That was the beginning of Missionaries of Charity.”
Her Literature…