MOTHER TERESA

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha

Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on

August 26**, 1910. 


 At the age of eighteen she left her

parental home in Skopje and joined the

Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of

nuns with missions in India. After a few

months' training in Dublin she was sent

to India.


On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from

the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of

Charity",


Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed

throughout the world and she has received a number of

awards and distinctions, including the Pope John XXIII

Peace Prize (1971) and the Nehru Prize for her promotion of

international peace and understanding (1972). She also

received the Balzan Prize (1979) and the Templeton and

Magsaysay awards.







 
From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1971-1980, Editor-in-Charge
 
Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Irwin Abrams, World Scientific
 
Publishing Co., Singapore, 1997
 
 
QUOTES:
 
 
Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by
 
everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much
 
greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.





Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for

being wanted, for having someone to call their own.



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


 
 
Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the
 
beginning of love.





 
Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but
 
how much love we put in that action.