Dressed in her white and blue sari

„Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful think.“
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

When she died(1997), Mother Teresa owned nothing but her rosary beads and her distinctive white and blue sari.
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia, on August 27th 1910. She grew up with brother and sister in a very happy family. Little Teresa attended the government school near her home until she was eighteen. At that time, some missionaries from Yugoslavia were working in Calcutta. And they often wrote to the school about their work. Gradually she decided to join them. The young novice took the name "Teresa" after Saint Theresa, the patron saint of missionaries
When she finished school, she went first to Ireland and after that to India. There she began to train for religious life. After training, she was send to the Calcutta, where she taught Geography at a high school and eventually she became Principal.
However, although loved teaching, in 1946 Mother Teresa left the school and went to work in the slums of Calcutta. She did some nursing training in Panta, and then began her work helping the poor and comfoting the dying in the streets of the city.
Gradually many young people decided to help her and her work spread to others parts of India. She traveled to open new schools and hospitals in poor countries, too. Serving the poor, network of 350 missions spread hope and inspired the world. In 1979, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and she accepted it dressed in her simple and typical sari. Probably nobody know when, but yet millions called her Mother, the Mother of changing the world.

She spent her life caring for the sick and dying.

What was the secret of this powerful little woman ? It was her purity - the purity of heart and of purpose that enabled her to focus every ounce of her energy on her simple and unswerving purpose in life: to do, to make, to be something beautiful for God.


In serving the poor, she embraced all religions and called for Christians, Hindus, and Musllims to live together in love.Mother Teresa had multiple legacies, such as the Missionaries of Charity, which still exists today. The Missionaries of Charity was established in 1950, which she managed for 47 years.

„Be faithful in small things“

„ I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper´s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experiance?“ she said in a 1974 in some interview.

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