MOTHER THERESA

                                         Mother Theresa was internationally respected for her  work to relieve the suffering of the poor, the sick and dying. she began the work of helping the desperately poor of India by bringing dying person from the streets into a home, where they could die in peace and dignity. She also established an orphanage. Through her untiring efforts she succeeded in forming a congregation of sister whose work has now spread to five continents. 

  

Mother Theresa was born in Skipje, Albania, on august 27, 1910 , and was named Agnes Gonxha bijaxhini. she left her home at the age of 18 to joined the institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin. She entered the order of the sister of our lady of loreto when she was 18 years old. She was sent to Calcutta by the sister of Loreto and she became a geography teacher in a school i Calcutta. While travelling on a train on September 10, 1946, she heard the cries of some sick and helpless people, which inspired her to help the poor. This experience she described as a "call within a call" to help the desperately poor of India. 

                                                

  In early 1948, the year she became an Indian citizen, she asked permission to level her convent and sister Agnes became Theresa. She moved into the city's slums and started nursing to help the destitute in Calcutta. she donned a blue trimmed white sari, which became the uniform of her missionaries of Charity , founded on October 07, 1950. The missionaries of Charity now number nearly 3000 sister of various nationalities who work on five countries. They are helped by about 400 brothers and thousand of lay volunteers, Who run 380 hospices, leper colonies and orphanage, Including 160 in Indian. 

                      

 Mother Theresa won many awards for her dedicated working serving the poorest of the poor. She was awarded the first John Peace price in 1968 by pop john Paul. she was honoured with the Jawaharlal Nehru prize for international understanding in 1972, the Templeton prize in 1973, the Albert schweitzer prize in 1975, the n Nobel peace prize in 1979, and India's highest civilian decoration a year later.                                                                                                                               

    

 Mother Theresa died in 1997 at the age of 87.  

     she entered her life in Calcutta, the city that had inspired her as an 18 years old, to establish her missionaries of charity order. Although mother Theresa is no more, the good work she began lives on, as the Oder's , which first started in India, have spread to 87 countries "a drop of deliverance in an ocean of suffering" is the single phrase she often use to describe her life's work.