Saint Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity. She traveled to the slums of Calcutta and started a school.
In 1949 what missionary did Mother Teresa found? Where did she go Dec 21 1950?
Pope John Paul II recognized the miraculous healing of Indian woman's tumor. Second miracle recognized by Vatican. Beatified on Oct 19 2003 at St. Peters Square, Vatican City
In 2002 what did Pope John Paul II recognize? When and where did he beatify her?
At 18 Agnes joined the Loreto Sisters in Dublin Ireland Took name "Sister Teresa" after St. Teres Lisieux (patron saint of missionaries)
What did she join at the age of 18? What name did she take?
On May 24, 1931 she took her initial vows as a nun and was sent to Calcutta to teach at St. Mary's HS (all girls) In 1937 she took her vows of poverty,chasity, obedience
What happened on May 24, 1931? What happened 6 years later in 1937?
While Teresa was traveling to Calcuta Jesus told her to abandon teaching and work in the slums of Calcutta. Finally got permission 1 year later.
What happened on September 10, 1946 while traveling to Calcutta?
Agnes felt call from God to lead religious life
What happened while she was at a pilgrimage when she was 12?
born into Albanian Catholic family her father passed away in 1910
What kind of family was she born in? What tragedy happened in 1919?
Jesuit Parish St. Francis of Assisi
What religious formation did her mother tell her? Who was Mother Teresa's great admirer?
born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia
When and where was Mother Teresa born?
Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997 at age of 87 after suffering great health problems after 1980.
When did Mother Teresa die?
She left the convant on Aug 17 1948 wearing blue and white sari. She adopted Indian citizenship and obtained 6 months of medical training in the Holy Family Hospital.
When did she leave the convent? What citizenship did she attain?
She experienced doubts and struggles in her faith for 66 years of her life. "She felt no presence of God in her heart or Eucharist"
When she was alive what happened to her spirituality?
baptized on August 27, 1910( 1 day old) Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
When was she baptized? Original name?
Sept 4 2016
When was she canonized?
