Bojaxhiu, Agnes Gonxha(Mother Teresa; Teresa of Calcutta)

Bojaxhiu, Agnes Gonxha(Mother Teresa; Teresa of Calcutta)




Born: 1910 AD
Died: 1997 AD, at 87 years of age.
Nationality: Indian

Bojaxhiu, Agnes Gonxha

1910 - Born on August 26th in sküb, Ottoman Empire [Skopje, Macedonia]. Indian philanthropist and religious leader.

1928 - Agnes left home in September, for the Loreto Convent in Rathfarnam (Dublin), Ireland, where she was admitted as a postulant on October 12th and received the name of Teresa, after her patroness, St. Therese of Lisieux.

1929 - Agnes was sent by the Loreto order to India and arrived in Calcutta on January 6th and joined the Loreto novitiate in Darjeeling.

1937 - She made her final profession as a Loreto nun on May 24th, and hereafter was called Mother Teresa.

1946 - On September 10th, during a train journey, she was inspired to dedicate herself to the poorest. - Sister Teresa experienced her “call within a call,” which she considered divine inspiration to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor.

1950 - She founded the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the destitute of India.

1952 - She established Nirmal Hriday (“Place for the Pure of Heart”), a hospice where the terminally ill could die with dignity.1971 - In recognition of her apostolate, she was honoured on January 6th, by Pope Paul, who awarded her the first Pope John XXIII Peace Prize.

1973 - She was awarded the inaugural Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.1974 - Diagnosed with heart problems, a fact which she tried to keep secret.

1979 - She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, the most prestigious of many awarded her around the world.

1982 - She was awarded an Honorary A.C. (Companion of the Order of Australia) on January 26th for her services to Australia and humanity worldwide.

1985 - Marvel Comics published a comic book about her life entitled: Mother Teresa of Calcutta. - Mother Teresa spoke at the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly in October.

1989 - She suffered ill health and had a heart attack.

1990 - She resigned as head of the order but was returned to office by a near unanimous vote—the lone dissenting voice was her own.

1991 - She opened the cathedral in Tirana which had been used as a cinema by the dictator Hoxha and she opened three houses in Albania.

1997 - Died from heart failure on September 5th in Calcutta, India.

2003 - She was beatified by Pope John Paul II, reaching the ranks of the blessed in the shortest time in the history of the church on October 19th

Famous Quotes from Bojaxhiu, Agnes Gonxha

• "I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world."
  


• "If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one."
  


• "There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love."
  


• "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
  


• "God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer."