She chose to be named after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries because a nun in the convent had already chosen that name, she opted for its Spanish spelling of Teresa. She arrived in India in 1929 and began her novitiate in Darjeeling, in the lower Himalayas, where she learned Bengali and taught at St. Her family lived in Skopje until 1934, when they moved to Tirana. She saw neither her mother nor her sister again. Īnjezë left home in 1928 at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English with the intent of becoming a missionary English was the language of instruction of the Sisters of Loreto in India. Her resolve strengthened on 15 August 1928 as she prayed at the shrine of the Black Madonna of Vitina-Letnice, where she often went on pilgrimages. Īccording to a biography by Joan Graff Clucas, Anjezë was in her early years when she became fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service in Bengal by age 12, she was convinced that she should commit herself to religious life. Her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova, believed by her offspring to be Bishtazhin. He was born in Prizren (today in Kosovo), however, his family was from Mirdita (present-day Albania). Her father, who was involved in Albanian-community politics in Ottoman Macedonia, died in 1919 when she was eight years old.
She was the youngest child of Nikollë and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Bernai). She later considered 27 August, the day she was baptised, her "true birthday". She was baptised in Skopje the day after her birth.
She was born on 26 August 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (now the capital of North Macedonia). Mother Teresa's given name was Anjezë Gonxhe (or Gonxha) Bojaxhiu ( Albanian: - Anjezë is a cognate of "Agnes" Gonxhe means "rosebud" or "little flower" in Albanian. Memorial House of Mother Teresa in her native Skopje On 6 September 2017, Mother Teresa and Saint Francis Xavier were named co-patrons of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Calcutta. Her authorised biography, written by Navin Chawla, was published in 1992, and she has been the subject of many other works. A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Mother Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work, but was criticised for her views on abortion and contraception, as well as the poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Mother Teresa received several honours, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.
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Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience and also profess a fourth vow: to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." The congregation also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. The congregation manages homes for people who are dying of HIV/AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis. Mother Teresa founded Missionaries of Charity, a religious congregation, which grew to have over 4,500 nuns across 133 countries as of 2012.
The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is her feast day. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived most of her life. She was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Skopje, part of the Ottoman Empire at the time. Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, MC ( pronounced 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun and the founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
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