Mother Teresa was born in 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia and decided at a young age that she wanted to be a missionary. She joined the Sisters of Loreto as a nun in 1928 and came to India in 1929, where she taught school. In 1948, she received permission to leave teaching and work with the poor and homeless in Calcutta. She started an open-air school and her order, the Missionaries of Charity, which grew internationally. Mother Teresa received several honors including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work helping the poor in India. She died in Calcutta in 1997 after battling heart problems and malaria in her later years.

2. * Mother Teresa was born on August 27,1910 in
Skopje,Macedonia.
* Mother Teresa's original name was Agnes
Gonxha. She was youngest of the three
siblings.
* She received her First Communion at the age
of five and a half and was confirmed in
November 1916.
* Her father’s sudden died when she was about
eight years old.
* At the age of 12, she decided that she wanted to
be a missionary and spread the love of
Christ.
* At the age of 18 she left her parental home in
Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an
Irish community of nuns with missions in
India. There she received the. name Sister
Mary Teresa after St. Thérèse of Lisieux

3. * After training at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin
Mother Teresa came to India on 6 January 1929.
* On May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931
to 1948, Mother Teresa taught geography at St. Mary's High
School in Calcutta.
* The prevailing poverty in Calcutta had a deep impact on Mother
Teresa's mind in 1948, she received permission from her
superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to
working among the poor people in Calcutta.
* She started an open-air school for homeless children. Soon she was
joined by voluntary helpers, and she received financial support
from church organizations.
* On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the
Vatican to start her own order
* By the early 1960s, Mother Teresa began to send her Sisters to other
parts of India.
* The Decree of Praise granted to the Congregation by Pope Paul VI
in February 1965 encouraged her to open a house in Venezuela.
It was soon followed by foundations in Rome and Tanzania .
* Starting in 1980 and continuing through the 1990s, Mother Teresa
opened houses in almost all of the communist
countries, including the former Soviet Union, Albania and Cuba.

4. She received a number of awards
*Indian Padmashri Award in 1962,
*both prizes of attention “for the glory of god and in the name
of the poor.” these include the pope john XXiii peace prize
(1971),
*Nehru Prize for Promotion of International Peace &
Understanding (1972),
* Balzan Prize (1978),
* Nobel Peace Prize (1979)
* Bharat Ratna (1980).

5. Gandi “ He lived for peace and
died for peace “

7. Mother Teresa had a heart attack in 1989 , then she had a
Malaria and she had a heart surgery in 1996 . She died
in Calcutta on September 5 , 1997 .