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Mother Theresa
Aug 27 1910 - Born as Agnes Gionxhu Bejuxhiu in Skopje in the former Yugoslavia. 1928 - Becomes Roman Catholic Loretto nun and begins noviate training in Loretto Abbey, Dublin, Ireland. Takes name Sister Teresa. 1937 - Takes final vows as a nun. 1950 - Founds the Missionaries of Charity. 1952 - Opens Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), home for the dying.
1953 - Opens orphanage. 1971 - Receives the Pope John XXIII Peace Prize and uses the $25,000 to build a leper colony. 1979 - Awarded Nobel Peace Prize for work with destitute and dying. 1985 - Awarded Medal of Freedom. 1990 - Re-elected superior general of her order of the Missionaries for Charity despite her wish to step down.
“Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.” “If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.” “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.” “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? There is nothing between.” "It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
September 5, 1997 - Dies of a massive heart attack in Calcutta at the age of 87.
By Olivia And Danielle
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