From a holy life to sainthood The graceful journey of Mother Teresa
3 Sept 2016 1:46 PM IST3 Sept 2016 1:46 PM IST
In early 1929 she moved to Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, where she became a teacher and, 15 years on, headmistress at a convent school.
Affectionately called the 'saint of the gutters' during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta is made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church today, 19 years after her death.- In December 2015, Pope Francis opened the way for her canonisation by approving a decree recognising a second miracle attributed to her intercession with God -- the healing of a Brazilian who recovered from a severe brain infection in 2008.
- On September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa died of a heart attack at her order's headquarters in Kolkata. An array of world dignitaries attended her funeral.
- Despite declining health, including arthritis, failing eyesight and heart problems, she continued to work.
- In 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work for the world's destitute. 'I am unworthy,' she said.
- In 1965, Pope Paul VI granted the Decree of Praise to Mother Teresa's religious order, bringing it directly under Vatican jurisdiction. That same year the first Missionaries of Charity house outside India was founded, in Venezuela.
- She worked for three decades in India before leaving for the first time in 1960, going to the United States to address the National Council of Catholic Women.
- The following year Mother Teresa opened her first home for the dying, and in 1957 her first mobile leprosy clinic.
- In 1946 she received 'a call within a call' to found the Missionaries of Charity, officially established as a religious congregation in 1950. Nuns of the order began calling her Mother Teresa. The Indian government granted her citizenship in 1951.
- In early 1929 she moved to Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, where she became a teacher and, 15 years on, headmistress at a convent school.
- Deeply religious, she became a nun at the age of 16, joining the Loreto abbey in Ireland. Two years later she was given the name Sister Teresa.
- Mother Teresa was born to ethnic Albanian parents on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, now the capital of Macedonia, and named Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu.
Affectionately called the \'saint of the gutters\' during her lifetime, Mother Teresa of Calcutta is made an official saint of the Roman Catholic Church today, 19 years after her death.
In early 1929 she moved to Calcutta, now known as Kolkata, where she became a teacher and, 15 years on, headmistress at a convent school.
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