of Calcutta
day capital of Macedonia, Skopje. Her life of Faith began at the age of
five when she received her First Communion as a Catholic. Mother
Teresa was raised in a loving household that greatly influenced her fine
character and encouraged her vocation. Less than fifteen years later she
knew that her calling was to live a life of simplicity following God and
providing for the poor. She joined the Sisters of Loreto by the time she
was eighteen. On May 24, 1937 she took her final Vows into the
sisterhood, and from that point forward she was known not as her birth
name, Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu, but as we know her, Mother Teresa. She
later became the principal of St. Mary's school in 1944 and had a deep
love for her students and fellow sisters. Whlle travelling to her annual
retreat from Calcutta in 1946 Mother Teresa was inspired by God to be
his light to radiate the world and create her own religious order that would
care for all the downtrodden in the world. So, in 1948 she was allowed
to establish the Missionaries of Charity, who were dedicated to service of
the poor. Throughout the rest of her life she served the lowliest of
humans that nobody else would waste their time with. Similiar
organizations spread all over the world and held the same ideals of Mother
Teresa. Mother Teresa received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and died
September 5, 1997 after her lifelong devotion to serving the Lord and the
least among us.
