Mother Teresa Biography Essay

Mother Teresa Biography Essay

Mother Teresa was a fascinating woman who dedicated herself to the poor throughout her lives. We all had great esteem for her sacrifices on those who were in needs.
Her original name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu and she was born in a Catholic family in Yugoslavia. She had one elder sister and an elder brother. Mr. Bojaxhiu died when she was seven. Mrs. Bojaxhiu run a small business after her husband’s death in order to raise her beloved children. Personally I believed Mrs. Bojaxhiu was an amazingly strong and brave woman because it was so tough for her to get out from her husband’s death as well as shoulder the family. I also wondered how talent she was to handle such a difficult situation. She was one of the most influential people on Mother Teresa. Generally, Mother Teresa received uncountable love during her childhood.
Mother Teresa decided to become a nun when she was eighteen. Then she participated in the Loreto Order in Bengal. She became the principal of St Mary’s School during the seventeen years there. After that, she had an idea that she should help the poorest in Calcutta. Finally she was able to leave the Order and be a vowed nun with supports from the Father. Mother Teresa was getting well-known of what she had done in Calcutta, therefore more and more girls came join her. In my opinion, I would never put myself serving in a place suffering in diseases and cries. I might think of my marriage and how beautiful my life would be later on. However, Mother Teresa gave up her family in order to help the sufferings, so I thought we should respect of what she was doing.
Her work started developing with the growing number of nuns. She set up Motherhouse not only in Calcutta, also overseas. After that, they were named the Missionary of Charity. Also, a new branch, the Missionary Brother of Charity, was established which leaded by Brother Andrew. Furthermore, Mother Teresa sent homeless children oversea for adoption. Most of them had a great life with their new parents. Leprosy was a horrible disease in Calcutta, so Mother Teresa formed Leprosy Centre to give them medical treatment. She also brought the Home of Dying in Kalighat for the people to die in dignity. How could Mother Teresa do that much for the poor? Why don’t we act like her? She had never got repay by anything, except for those awards she received after she had retired. No one had ever done that much when people were in needs. We should revere her as a teacher who guided us to help generously.
Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize of Peace from the King of Norway in 1979 and she was the first non-Indian who received the Padma Shri. She died in 199 7 gloriously. In conclusion, she was one of the most honorable women in the history. We were all proud of what she had done.

The Tenth Post of Mother Teresa

• A terrible drought in the northern part of Ethiopia in 1981.
• Mother Teresa brought medicene and food to them from Calcutta. However, those were not enough for them. Therefore, many international agencies save them from starvation.
• The US began to help after Mother Teresa wrote a letter to President Reagan.
• Helicopters reached food to the villages.
• The India Government supported Mother Teresa that they never rejected her wishes.
• Mother Teresa was a friend of the countries leaders.
• Mother Teresa had a heart problem.
• She refered Pope Paul II as the 'Holy Father'
• She even tried to solve the conflict between the USA and Iraq.
• She was honoured by different universities all over the world, even though she had not been educated in university.
• People voted her as the 'Most Admired Woman'.
• Mother Teresa was the first non-Indian who received the Padma Shri, the Order of the Lotus in 1962.
• The highest award was given by Queen Elizabeth in 1983, the Templeton Prize.
• She received the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1979 from the King od Norway.
• She died in 1997 after serving the poor non-stop for years.

The Ninth Post of Mother Teresa

• There was a large temple in Kalighat The Home of Dying was located beside the temple.


• It was difficult to locate Mother Teresa's home for dying destitutes as many people came there to worship their goddess.


• Later on, they finally set up a centre in Kalighat which was called Nirmal Hriday.


• Nirmal Hriday was always opened for the people in need.


• The hospital in Kalighat could only a little for the citizens there.


• Many people died in the street, sometimesthe municipality would send a van to pick up the corpse.


• There were shelterless people throughout Kalighat. Diseases were spreadig seriously.


• As the hospital refused to accept dying people. Mother Teresa decided to find a place for them.


• The first Home of Dying was in Motijhil which functioned as Mother Teresa looked after the people the hospital refused.


• Those who died in the Home of Dying buried as Christians.


• People received not only medication from the Sisters, also love.


• The Sisters tried not to reject those who were hungry and suffering.


• Volunteers from all over the world came help in Nirmal Hriday for a shortperiod of time.


• The body goes, the peace and soul remain.


• A mother saved eight biscults for her children to show her love on them.


• They had recued 54000 people from the street throughout the years.


• Death meant 'going home'


• Dying people were glad that they died in dignity, not like an animal.

The Eighth Post of Mother Teresa

• Leprosy Centre at Titagarh was located in the industrial suburb of Calcutta which work were bring done by the Brothers.
• Shanty towns were growing in a terribly fast speed. Even the police kept away from it.
• Leprosy was a horrible disease which rotted fingers and toes, depressed noses and lost eyebrows.
• Sister Collett provided free medicene and vitamins for patients at the mobile clinic.
• The disease also spread to newborn children.
• Brother's work in Titagarh was threatened by gang leaders.
• The Brothers built a Rehabilitation Centre which included residential housing, hospital and cafeteria.
• Hundreds of patients got free medical care from the Brothers.
• ' To understand the poor, you must stand under the poor.' said BrotherMariadas.
• A taxi driver, who drove the author and Brother Mariadas to Shantinagar, finally realized that leprosy was not that terrible. It could be cured.
• Bengal government provided lots of material for Mother Teresa, included places.
• Pope Paul VI visited India as a guest of the Government in 1965.
• 1964 Lincoln Continental limousine flown out from the America to India.
• The environment in Shantinagar was getting better and improved.
• Mother Teresa was challenged to set up leprosy hospital and clinic in city. At last, she failed.
• The first mobile leprosy clinic was launched by Archbishop Perier in 1957.

The Seventh Post of Mother Teresa

• A women, who lost her hunsband and at the same time her child was in sick, brought her kid to Mother Teresa in ordr to begin her work at dawn.




• Her child, Bapi, suffered from multiple sclerosis. He could not move himself, even turning or scratching. He was also deaf and mute.




• Years later, Bapi's mother had stopped visiting him. The Sisters believed she had died. Then Bapi died because of fever.




• Shishu Bhawan was a general name for the children's homes that the Missionary of Charity had opened in India.




• Gita got burn and her parents died in a terrible fire. Her face was a mass of scars and none of relatives wanted to take care her. Then she was sent to the Missionary of Charity. However, she barely spoke.




• Many mother brought their dying child to the Sister.




• Pregnant girl could work with the Sisters untilchildbirth.




• Boy's Home, which operated by the Brother branch, received boys who were too old for adoption.




• Children's education were paid by sponsors. Girls who did not show scholastic ability were found husbands.




• Mother Teresa advocated 'natural family planning'.




• Abortion was serious because women often got pregnant after sex but they were too poor to raise their unborn baby. Furthermore, sex is free.




• Mother Teresa said the greatest destroyer of the world was not war but abortion.




• Children were sent oversea for adoption.




• Example, the Rudazes family adopted 5 children




• Once Mother Teresa brought some new medicene from Rome that might help a sick child in Calcutta. Luckily, the plane departed on time and the child was saved.

The Sixth Post of Mother Teresa

• A young priest who was a Missionary Brother of Charity had just entered the Order. However, he was arrested by the police with other hoodlums unreasonably.
• A Brother branch of the Missonary of Charity was set up in 1963 and the General Servant of this branch was Brother Andrew.
• The uniform for the Brothers were not easy to recognize.
• Archbishop Albert Vincent replaced Archbishop Perier. Archbishop Albert Vincent was so different that he seldom opposed Mother Teresa's idea and once he agreed in five minutes.
• As Roman Catholic Church didnt permitt a woman to be head of a religous congregation of men, Mother Teresa appointed Ian Travers-Ball, later named Brother Andrew, to be the leader.
• Mother Teresa bought a house for the brothers.
• Brothers began their work at the Howrah railway station, which was in Shishu Bhawan. There were mostly young teen orphans or some of them ran away from home and they were suffering in diseases.
• The first special home for handicapped boys was called Nabo Jeevan.
• Brother Andrew opened the first overseas house in Vietnam.
• A Brother was kidnapped for then released after three months. However, the Archbishop of El Salvadoe was shot a few months later.
• They started a soup kitchen in Paris.
• There were many co-workers who came tu help serving the poor.
• Anne Blaikie formed the first Co-worker group in Calcutta. They collected clothes for the poor children in Calcutta as a Christmas present.
• More and more small co-worker group were formed from countries to countries.
• Also the sick, handicapped, old and disable people joined the active work.
• Jacqueline de Decker was a great helper of Mother Teresa.
• Mother Teresa was getting slow because of illness.
• Jacqueline relied on telephone to communicate with Mother Teresa.

The Fifth Entry of Mother Teresa

• Motherhouse was the new centre of the Missionaries of the Charity after the nuns moved out from Creek Lane.


• All nuns must went in pairs, no matter where they were going


• They are not permitted to ear or drink outside the convent or workplace.


• Mother Teresa's 'business card'.
  The Fruit of Silence is Prayer
  The Fruit of Prayer is Faith
  The Fruit of Faith is Love
  The Fruit of Love is Service
  The Fruit of Service is Peace


• Sisters didnt attend to their regular schdule of works on Thursday.


• Mother Teresa refused gift ,for example, a washing machine.


• Sisters were allowed to return home in rare occations,on an average of once in ten years.


• Some newspaper misused the name of the Missionaries of the Charity in order to sell more paper out


• Girls were allowed to go home and think carefully before the last vow.


• Mother Teresa spent most of the donations on medicene


• There were Motherhouse in Ranchi and Delhi, Indiaseveral years later


• By 1991, 168 house s had been established.


• First oversea house in Venezuela, Secondin Rome.


• She had a hard time when convincing Soviet Union that letting her to opened Motherhouse


• An election of generals and officers in every six years.

The Fourth Entry of Mother Teresa

• Creek Lane was a street which had jumbo houses and everyone knew each other very well.


• Mother Teresa spent four years with the Gomes family that she lived in the empty room on the top floor.


• She found an ideal place for the Missionaries of Charity.
• She said that she was on the street, with no company, no helper, no money, no guarantee, and no security.


• The Gomes brothers offered her some furniture but she refused to use all of them. She just took a few that she needed the most.
• Mother Teresa asked Michael Gomes for six mugs of rice, but finally she gave them all to the poor.
• The room which Mother Teresa lived was also a chapel.


• Mother Teresa sometimes brought Michael Gomes' daughter, Mabel to slum that made his wife worried. Once she met a child who suffering fever, she immediately brought Mabel to her home then went back to help the sick child.
• Sister Agnes and Sister Gertrude, former students of Mother Teresa, joined to help Mother Teresa on March 19 and March 26
• They collected leftovers for those people who were starving.
• More and more former St. Mary's students came to join Mother Teresa
• They visited the people in needs everyday
• B.C Roy was the first who made a donation to the work of Mother Teresa
• A Constitution, comprised 275 rules and also called 'The Constitution of the Missionaries of Charity', for the new congregation.
• As the Missionaries of Charity was growing rapidly, they needed to find a larger place. Finally, Archbishop bought a building and Mother Teresa later repaid the loan by paying 1000-3000 rupees per month.