Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun who started the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her work with people.[2] For over forty years, she took care of needs of those without money, those who were sick, those without parents, and those dying in Calcutta (Kolkata), guided in part by the ideals of Saint Francis of Assisi. She was born in Skopje, Macedonia, and died in Calcutta.
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 Mother Teresa | |
| Born | August 26, 1910 |
| Died | 5 September 1997 (aged 87) |
| Occupation | Roman Catholic nun, humanitarian[1] |
As the Missionaries of Charity grew under Mother's leadership, they expanded their ministry to other countries. By the 1970s she had become internationally well known as an advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a movie and book, Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge. She did not think women had the right to have abortions and said "The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me?".[3]
Following her death she was beatified (the first stage of sainthood) by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.[4][5]
References
- ↑ PBS Online Newshour (September 5, 1997).Mother Teresa Dies Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, www.pbs.org. Retrieved August, 2007
- ↑ "Mother Teresa - The Nobel Peace Prize 1979". Nobelprize.org. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
- ↑ "The greatest destroyer of peace..." BrainyQuote. Retrieved 2 June 2012.
- ↑ Associate Press, "Full house for Mother Teresa ceremony" Archived 2004-03-05 at the Wayback Machine October 14, (2003; retrieved from CNN Archived 2013-07-30 at the Wayback Machine on May 30, 2007.
- ↑ "Blessed Mother Teresa," in Encyclopædia Britannica (2007). Retrieved May 30, 2007, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online
Other websites
- Mother Teresa of Kolkata information Archived 2014-02-01 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
- Speech On Mother Teresa In English : Nobel Peace Prize Speech