Humanity’s Great Nurse was the Noble Lady Mother Teresa—fondly remembered for flying the flag of love, peace, and refuge. The aforementioned is the final bloodline amongst individuals who were just but selflessly tormented people to terminate oppression, injustice, and brutality. Such persons are hard to come by in the present-day society.
Date of Birth and Childhood
The year when Florence Nightingale died. On August 26 191, an Albanian Roman Catholic peasant family happened to be Mother Teresa’s birthplace. This place was called Skopje, which at that time was a small village southern part of Yugoslavia. No one knows who with or why because it appears as though Nightingale handed over anybody’ the lamp of peace, service, and care to Mother Teresa. To the rightful successor, who was her mother. For this reason, she embodies living love, compassion, and charity.
His father is named Nicolas Bozaxhiu while his mother is Dronafile. Her father Bojazhiu used to be a grocer. He named her Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu.
The injured crippled helpless crying soldier Florence Nightingale & Florence Nightingale, a noblewoman of the 19th century was ‘Lady.’ How many people have managed to keep alive the lamp of life through serving others? Such is the case with another nightingale who has been giving this city of Kolkata in particular and this sub-continent in general his love, compassion, peace, and service all the time. Mother Teresa was indeed a saintly heir of Florence Nightingale.
It never occurred to this indigent Albanian couple that their extremely modest daughter would later on dedicate herself to realizing her dream of helping the world’s sufferers out of misery. However insignificant it was then; however insignificant it was then, they didn’t know the power used by the tiny girl in kneeling before pictures of merciful Jesus and Mother Mary. By silently addressing God, Agnes’ mother drew all her strength from this kind of prayer; which was followed very strictly even later on in life no matter how busy he was with work.
To means that Agnes had two sisters as well as a brother. He had one leg weak. For this physical deformity, he was always clothed in a veil of shame. At the age of seven, she became fatherless. Agnes was raised with much difficulty by her mother in the then-war-torn Yugoslavia. But it was from her that Agnes imbibed the spirit of loving the poor and serving God. He developed an interest in religion from an early age.
Education
While studying at the Public School in Skopje, Agnes tried the missionary services of the Sodality. He would frequently read the Sangh newspapers. This newspaper carried news about India. “At the age of twelve,” he solemnly recounted, “I concluded that I should be of some use to the poor people in India who wanted to be a missionary there.” This was during one of those periods when the whole class read letters from Yugoslav Jesuits and all these letters mentioned Calcutta in one way or another. Listening to such stories about that place made Agnes long for it.
Joining the Loreto Society
Mother Teresa got to know that there was a Loreto Society in India which originated from Ireland. Therefore, she wrote a letter to the main office of Loreto Congregation, Dublin. Later, he received a response following which he obtained his mother’s consent and left for Bathernham, Ireland where he joined the Loreto Congregation.
As an 18-year-old person, Mother Teresa tried being a missionary in Calcutta, India early in the year 1928. It was the life and work of Loretta, an ideal nurse from Ireland that impressed her to such a great extent.
He who was first to reach Bengal touched him. Since that day Agnes felt herself being a ‘Bengali’. She was still no Nun at the time but was sent to Darjeeling as a novice for a year’s familiarization with missionary work before taking her final vows as a consecrated Sister in Calcutta.
Career
At St. Mary`s School where Mother Teresa Entalli worked as a teacher in the Bengali Department. There she used to teach geography and history subjects. For twenty years interval, she worked as an educator in that institution. And 1942 saw her promotion to the Principal of the same school. His stay was prolonged there because the Motijheel slum dwellers’ fraught with poverty and suffering children’s circumstances haunted him then. This was during the Second World War.
The city of Calcutta was hit by a manmade famine, as a result of war exigencies. Thus, this has led to an exodus of the starving people from villages to the towns with hope for those two handfuls of rice in the hope for rice starch that result in death. At this time Sister Agnes started working. However, he realized that isolating himself would not help the poor. To share their fate, one must come out into modern ‘poor’ and ‘hungry’ hopes – out of the security of four walls that make up today’s comfortable life.
Spiritual Life
On the 10th day of September 1946, he experienced a miracle while on his way to Darjeeling. He heard God speaking to him. Speaking of this realization, the Mother herself said “This is a call within a call…….. The message was clear. God told me to move out from the Convent and work with the poor among the poor.”
Serving the poor requires being with them. She would always live to remember the day God told her this.DEF. He used to say the day of decision – the day of inspiration. That marked the transformation from Sister Agnes to Mother Teresa.
The Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother observe this day as Inspiration Day. Sangh thinks that their Sangh was founded on the 10th of September, 1946 AD. Under the mother’s superior’s permission, Agnes left Loreto. Alongside that, Loreto left the nun’s habits and put on a blue sari. On that day, his possessions were five rupees, a Bible, a crucifix, and a rosary bead.
Thereafter, she was intensely motivated and reliant on God. From that day forward, Teresa rid herself of any other name save for hers. In 1897 August 24th, saint, or rather Sister Teresa of France as she was popularly known died at the age of 24 years. This humble sister acted as a mentor to Mother Teresa. Before starting the preparations main work, I have to make some preparations for myself. After this, he proceeded to Patna where he took basic medical training at a mission hospital run by the Society of Catholic Medical Missionaries.
194 AD was the year when he returned to Calcutta. Consequently, he went to take refuge among the nuns of the Little Sisters of Poor Sangha. He later rented a room at Motijheel Basti for five takes from there. This marked the year, which saw him obtain Indian citizenship.
Then began his hard struggle for the poor humanity, advocacy, and support of the oppressed. That is where he opened his first school where he would teach a few children A B C D sitting on a tree. Upon finishing teaching he would visit the scavengers’ mahalla of the corporation. There he would ask about their families; tend to the ailing members within them; leave this place going around begging for money and drugs; and halt at nights in St. Joseph’s Home situated on the lower Circular Road. In Shastra Nagar, the place where he spent the last years of his life, he used to serve old people.
This is an overview of his first schools by the roadside – teaching some children how to read A B C D on a tree was his way of beginning. His day-to-day routine lasted throughout the day as he would go around the city’s slums after the cleaning hours at the corporation premises to find out the whereabouts of this group. It is known that he asked about their family backgrounds In addition, after taking good care of those who were sick, he would go around begging along with asking for money every day before medicine which he provided voluntarily to many patients suffering from different forms of diseases at that moment. As a result, he turned to the streets for both money and drugs till sunset when most residents started returning from work; then another place he could get his rest throughout the night was at St.Joseph’s Home located within Lower Circular Road where he served elderly at this ashram.
At this place, he started his first ministry with only eight nuns at 64A, Lower Circular Road dedicated to Calcutta’s poor. The name of this Road was changed to Jagadishchandra Bose Road. Later his Missionaries of Charity had come into existence.
It was a long time ago that he dedicated himself to serving mankind and people in Calcutta. He served the oppressed, the poor, and helpless humanity with all his heart. Gradually, he started building his service organization. He began taking in the people who were undergoing sorrows and pains through the love of a mother. The Missionaries of Charity was initiated with only five rupees as the start-up capital by him. Today this has expanded across all parts of the world into hundreds of other branches including Bangladesh. Several countries have these children’s homes; women’s work centers etc., while there are leprosy centers, food distribution centers, etc., all to serve humanity in such a manner as to educate it too. Nevertheless, he received international recognition for helping people.
His nuns have established service centers in 52 countries worldwide. In Calcutta city, there are dozens of houses for various activities including their main 60 houses and numerous hundreds of service centers belonging to the M.Cs. They have branches in more than one hundred places across India. She is known far and wide. The male workers who assist the nuns are also called the brothers of the Missionaries. They follow the same mind and faith as the women, working side by side for the same purpose.
In its early days, the Missionaries of Charity were supervised by the Archbishop of Calcutta, but now it is under the direct control of the Pope at Vatican City. It was founded by Mother who also established the laws she believed should govern the group like others belonging to Roman Catholicism professing faith involves adhering to vows typically poverty, chastity as well as obedience but actually within this organization being poor is very stressful. She once said, “You can’t love God or the poor unless you embrace poverty.” Just like their founder, these sisters wear the same old-fashioned blue sari’s that they would tie around their bodies; both pray with a prayer book and carry crucifixes on them when praying; they don’t rely on their families for support but instead, use their hands for all that needs doing like cooking and cleaning up after meal times in silence. It’s unthinkable nowadays that inside her house there’s no single electric fan and there is only one fan in each room for visitors and guests.
From the early days of Motijheel slums, Mother used to walk. 1964 AD Pope Paul VI donated his white Lincoln Continental limousine when he came to India for his use. Mother did not use that car. Sold it at auction and built a home for lepers. The Maha Yajna of Mother’s service started in Calcutta. Mother had to take ten years to build the first ashram outside Calcutta. Several girls from Ranchi joined Mother’s Sangh. So it was to them that he gifted the first ashram outside Calcutta — Sisters of Charity (1960 AD). Then he built Shishu Bhavan in Delhi. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurated this building. Swiss Ambassador and Union Minister Krishna Menon were also present. After setting up sevasrams in Bombay and other parts after Delhi, Mother stepped into the arena of outer India. He went to Venezuela, Rome, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, various Latin American countries, Australia, Jordan, Yemen, etc.
By February 1976 AD he established about twenty ashrams outside India. Mother Teresa, the icon of humanity, needs a huge amount of money every day for this huge work around the world. But there is no direct source of this income. All depends on donations from various people and organizations. Mother is dependent on God for money. He only prays. Don’t know where the money will come from. But everything comes to his feet as needed. Mother had no such distinction between rich and poor, educated and uneducated people. Just as he would accept the donation of the rich in the service of the poor, so he would accept the smallest donation collected by begging from the poorest person with the utmost respect.
Tagore Ramakrishna said about life service in Shivajnana. Vivekananda showed us that way. But in Mother was embodied the fullness of this vow. His power of service was miraculous. Which is incredible in the eyes of common people like us. But he was a deen from deen among us. He slept in a small room, with only one window, on a bed of leaves on the ground. According to Missionaries of Charity, the mother used to spend only sixty rupees a month on herself. In between eating, wearing, medicine, etc. People all over the world are equally interested in this man with a white saree, blue fringe, head veil, small body, and slow speaking. Just two words to ‘Mother Teresa’ – fake, genuine, high, low, hypocrite, saint, devil – would bring everyone’s head to mind. It is doubtful whether God himself appeared in human form and would have received such respect and devotion from people in all parts of the world. Mother is great in her actions. There was not a single person in the world who had the power to reject any of Mother’s words.
In 1985, United Nations Secretary-General Perez de Cuellar said in a meeting about Mother, ‘the most powerful human being on earth’. Our Chief Minister said in a respectful tone, don’t listen to Mother. That is, there is no way not to obey his words. The Pope’s palace in the Vatican was not open to the general public. At Mother’s insistence, Pope Paul was forced to build a home for Jesus’ people there. This was Mother Teresa. And whatever he did whenever and wherever, he did it for the deen’s sake—for the despicable, the neglected, the starving, the sick.
Awards and honors
Mother Teresa set an unparalleled example of loving people. The whole world recognized it head on, rewarded him with both hands.
1962 AD Awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India. Mother was awarded the Magsaysay Award that year. 1967 AD Received the 23rd Pope John Peace Prize from Pope Paul VI. In the same year, he was given the Good Samaritan Award in Boston, USA.
A month later, he received the John F. Kennedy International Recognition Award for International Understanding. In recognition of the development of spirituality, Prince Philip of England gave the Mother the Templeton Award for Progress in Religion in 1973. 1974 AD Received Mater et Magistro Award from USA.
Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 in recognition of her services to humanity. In 1980, he received the Bharat Ratna, the highest state honor of the Government of India.
He donated 15 lakh rupees of the Nobel Prize and about 1 crore rupees of other awards to the service of humanity. Mother Teresa built a treatment and service center for leprosy patients with Nobel Prize money.
The largest effort to immortalize Mother is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The Ceres Medal recognizes those who deliver a handful of food to the world’s hungry. The obverse of this medal bears the image of a malnourished child holding a begging bowl. On the other side is the statue of Mother Teresa.
Health loss and death
Mother worked tirelessly without judging time. As a result, he fell ill in 1984 AD. A pacemaker should be placed in the chest. Yet there was no end to his forays across the globe. He has been sick again and again. He recovered with the diligent treatment and care of the doctors. Jumped back to work. This is how he brought forward the last lagna of his life. A few days before Mahaprayan, he had to move around in a wheelchair.
On September 5, 1997, Mother Teresa, the epitome of humanity at the Mother House in Calcutta, took eternal refuge in the arms of her beloved and adorable Lord Jesus at the age of 87. The whole world is motherless.
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