After reading the first 20 pages of Mother Teresa's biography. I know a lot about her childhood and early life which she was serving in Calcutta, India.
- Her original name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu.
- She was born on 26 August 1910 in Skopje, Yugoslavia.
- Her family were townsmen engaged in business. Her father, Nicholas Bojaxhiu, was a building constructor. He constructed the first Skopje Theatre. He died when she was seven. She described him as a charitable person. Her mother, Dranafile Bernai, was a housewife before her hunsband's death. The children described their mother as "very holy". As they didnt have any income after the death of Mr.Bojaxhiu, she started a small business on her own in order to bring up three children.
- She had one elder sister and one elder brother.
- Her early education was in Sacred Church and she was taught in the compulsory Serbo-Croatian language.
- She lived in a Catholic family.
- She joined a branch of society called the Sodality which started by Father Jambrenkovic
- She decided to become a nun at eighteen.
- She applied to the Loreto order in Bengal. It was the last time she ever saw her mother.
- After learning some English in Rathfarman, she set sail for India in November 1928.
- She started teaching in Loreto Convent in the mountain resort of Darjeeling.
- She was to remain there for seventeen years. She became the principle of St. Mary's school, a school for the orphans and the poor, from 1937
- She taught Geography and Catechism.
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