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Mother Teresa Research Paper

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Mother Teresa, catholic nun and missionary, was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia. Originally born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, to avid catholic Albanian parents, Nikola and Dranafile Bojaxhiu. While her father worked in the construction industry as a contractor, her mother was a loyal church member, greatly involved in the community parish. With an exceptional bond between mother daughter, Agnes was taught about compassion for others, inspiring her heartfelt to commitment to charity. As a girl, agnes attended schools ran by nuns, with a beautiful voice, always singing in the Sacred Heart choir, with frequent requests to sing solos. Meanwhile, at the young age of only 12 years old, she experienced her first calling to a faith based …show more content…

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From here on, Mother Teresa, turned her visions and religious callings into reality “She began an open-air school and established a home for the dying destitute in a dilapidated building she convinced the city government to donate to her cause”. (Mother Teresa) Meanwhile, in October 1950, she won canonical recognition for a new congregation, the Missionaries of Charity, which she founded with only a few members—most of them former teachers or students from St. Mary's School where she previously taught. (Mother Teresa) Incidentally, as the levels of her parish grew and monetary contributions flowed in from all over the world, the extent of Mother Teresa’s charitable enterprises quickly snowballed. “Over the course of the 1950s and 1960s, she established a leper colony, an …show more content…

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