Mother Teresa - Summary - Inspiring Lives Lesson 2

Timeline of events: 

1. She was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje (pronounced skope-yey) in Macedonia. 
2. She was fascinated by the stories of the lives of the missionaries and their service. 
3. She decided to follow a religious style of living at the age of 12
4. At the age of 18, she joined the Sisters of Loreto and she left home. 
5. She learned English from Ireland and came to India in the year 1929 to teach school children.
6. She chose the name Teresa and she started serving as a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Calcutta. 
7. She was disturbed by the poverty she saw in Calcutta. 
8. She began her missionary work in the year 1948 replacing her traditional Loreto habit with a simple white cotton sari decorated with a blue border.
9. She adopted Indian citizenship and ventured into the slums and started helping the hungry and the homeless. 
10. She had to beg on the streets of Calcutta to find an income to support her charity services. 
11. On October 7,1970 she started Missionaries of Charity. 
12. It started as a small society with 13 members and today it has more than 4,000 nuns running orphanages, AIDS care centres, refugee care centres and charity centres worldwide. 
13. In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the first Home for the Dying where people could die to dignity. 
14. ‘A beautiful death’ she said ‘is for people who lived like animals to die like angels’
15. She opened a home for people suffering from leprosy known as Shanti Nagar along with several leprosy outreach clinics throughout Calcutta. 
16. In 1995 she opened the Nirmala Shishu Bhavan, the Children’s Home for the orphans and the homeless youth. 
17. By 1996 she was operating 517 missions in more than 100 countries. 
18. Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983. In April 1996 she fell and broke her collar bone. 
19. On March 13, 1997, she stepped down as the head of the Missionaries of Charities and she died on September 5, 1997. 
20. In the year 1962, she was awarded the Padmashree by the Indian government 
21. In 1980 she was awarded India’s highest civilian award the Bharat Ratna.
22. In 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She donated the amount she received to the poor of India. 
23. When receiving the award, she was asked the question - What can we do to promote world peace? She answered - ‘Go home and love your family’