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Mother Teresa

            Through out the women known as Mother Teresa's life she had accomplished a great many tasks. Mother Teresa had done good works and heroic virtues in her lifetime. Mother Teresa's had accomplished many deeds through out her religious order and her "Way of Love". This is a way of not pleasing yourself but to give yourself to God and to be used by him in a very special way, a way of helping people. (The "Way of Love" is also a poem).
             Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (now called Macedonia) in 1910. Mother Teresa's original home was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhio. Mother Teresa was only 12 years old when she first knew she had a vocation to the poor but it wasn't until much later in 1928 when she suddenly decided to become a nun and traveled to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loredo a religious order founded in the seventeenth century. After studying at the convent for less than a year, she left to join the Loredo convent in the city of Darjeeling in India. On May 24th, 1931, she took the name of name of "Teresa" in honor of St. Teresa of Avila a sixteenth century Spanish nun. .
             In 1929 Mother Teresa was teaching at a catholic high school in Calcutta the city was filled with beggars, lepers, and the homeless and on wanted babies were left to die in garbage bins. One day in 1946 Mother Teresa felt the need to leave her job at St. Mary catholic school to care for the needy in Calcutta. .
             Mother Teresa began her work in 1948 by studying nursing for three months with the American Medical Missionaries in India, she there returned Calcutta to found the Missionaries of Charity and the Kalighat Home for the dying. Mother Teresa would gather dying Indians off the streets and care for them during the days before they died. .
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             In the mid 1950's, Mother Teresa began to help victims of leprosy. She established a leper colony called Shanti Nagar (town of Peace). In 1965 the Pope authorized Mother Teresa to expand her order outside of India.


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... people could go to get medicine, disinfectant, bandages, and other necessary supplies. The sisters opened up a rehabilitation clinic for the lepers. One of Mother Teresa's biggest achievements for the lepers was helping establish the 35 acre Town of Peace, a rehabilitating community for them. In the early 1960s, the ... work. These men were headed by Brother Andrew, who later took the name of General Servant, and called the Missionary Brothers of Charity. Mother Teresa was able to buy them a small home where their headquarters would be located. The brothers went into the areas of Calcutt...

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2. Mother Teresa On Family Values And Abortion

... 't use contraceptives, people may not have listened to her or took what she said seriously. To avoid this negative reaction from the audience, Mother Teresa began by talking about something that would make everyone listen, what God wants people to do. Everyone feels guilty when they sin, so when ... people are told what God considers to be unethical they will most likely listen. Mother Teresa also grabbed her audience's attention by telling emotional stories about what a peaceful and loving world is all about. For instance, she told a story ... "re hungry also." This is an example of th...

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3. Mother Teresa

... slums of Calcutta. Within weeks she was joined by her would be novices, mostly girls from the school where she was head mistress. By 1949, Mother Teresa was granted Indian citizenship. After a 1-year trial, she applied to Rome to form a new congregation. They were called the "Missionaries of Charity." ... followed by a tidal wave, shortly after, fighting broke out and the refugees made their way into Bengal, one of the world's poorest provinces. Mother Teresa and her Sisters tended to the sick and dying. By 1975, the Missionaries had 32 homes for the dying, 67 leprosariums and 28 childr...

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4. Biography of Mother Teresa

... person who noted for special achievement in a particular field, endowed with great courage and strength, celebrated for his bold exploits, and favored by the gods . Mother Teresa was full of enthusiasm and love, tenderness and kindness, courageousness and fearless; as she satisfied all the definition, and hence we could call her a hero. ... was not enough; she then went to a hospital in Bengali and helped to take care for the sick, starving, and helpless people. Furthermore, Mother Teresa was fearless and full of courageous. She had the courage to live in India, took care of the people w...

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... is described as miraculous; but praise leaves her indifferent. "If you have faith, you can move mountains," Christ said in the Gospels. Mother Teresa is living proof of this testimony. Beginning among Calcutta's sick and dying street population, she has extended her mission to Third World bidonvilles and ... the slum population as well as undertaking relief work in connection with such natural catastrophes as floods, epidemics, famine and swarms of refugees ("Mother Teresa"). Mother Teresa admitted that it was hard for her to leave Loreto and she considered it her greatest sacrifice, the...

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6. Biography of Mother Teresa

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7. Mother Teresa

... impact on our life, that made us look at the world with a different eye, Mother Teresa is definitely the one for me. Agnes Gronxha Bojaxhiu was born August 26,1910. She is called Mother Teresa today. She had catholic family. Her mother, Drana, helped people who were suffering from alcoholism, or person who was widow with ... After that, she receives the clothes of a sister and chooses the name of Sister Teresa. Mother Teresa went all over the world to help people, rescue children, advise her sisters; to organize and to talk. In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday(Pure Heart) Home...

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8. Mother Teresa

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9. Who did more for the world, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa?

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