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  Mother Teresa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1979 Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, "for work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitute a threat to peace." She refused the conventional ceremonial banquet given to laureates, and asked that the $6,000 funds be diverted to the poor in Calcutta.
In 1982, Mother Teresa persuaded Israelis and Palestinians, who were in the midst of a skirmish, to cease fire long enough to rescue 37 mentally-handicapped patients from a besieged hospital in Beirut.
Mother Teresa was granted a full state funeral by the Indian Government, an honor normally given to presidents and prime ministers, in gratitude for her services to the poor of all religions in India.
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 Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa considered that "poverty is a gift of God" and she believed and served that motto, and her beloved God, all her life.
Mother Teresa spent 18 years of her life in Skopje, before she went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, sailing later, to India as a teacher.
Mother Teresa for millions of Catholics and for others as well is already a saint who was devoted to the gutters, living as pious, chaste, ascetic, prayerful, poor, full of love for everyone.
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 Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center :: Mother Teresa of Calcutta Center Founded   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Established to promote genuine devotion to Mother Teresa and authentic knowledge of her life, work, holiness, spirituality, and message, the MTC was incorporated in New York, and will, once fully operational, maintain facilities in Calcutta, Tijuana, Rome and in the United States.
Conceived as the official vehicle through which Mother Teresa's life and message will be advanced and protected, the MTC is a Catholic not-for-profit organization intended to serve as the authoritative source for Mother Teresa's authentic writings and accurate information about her life and activities.
Mother Teresa (Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu) was born in Skopje, present-day Macedonia, on August 26, 1910.
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 Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997), biography
On 7 October 1950 the new congregation of the Missionaries of Charity was officially established in the Archdiocese of Calcutta.
The whole of Mother Teresa’s life and labour bore witness to the joy of loving, the greatness and dignity of every human person, the value of little things done faithfully and with love, and the surpassing worth of friendship with God.
She was given the honour of a state funeral by the Government of India and her body was buried in the Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity.
www.vatican.va /news_services/liturgy/saints/ns_lit_doc_20031019_madre-teresa_en.html   (1478 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Mother Teresa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Mother Teresa is among the most well-known and highly respected women in the world in the latter half of the twentieth century.
At the age of 86, Mother Teresa was on a respirator in a hospital, suffering from heart failure and malaria.
Mother Teresa celebrated her 87th birthday in August, and died shortly thereafter of a heart attack on September 5, 1997.
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 HOPE & HEALING - The Mother Teresa of Calcutta Memorial Page
Mother Teresa, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died on September 5, 1997, in her convent in India.
In 1950 Mother Teresa and her associates were approved within the archdiocese of Calcutta as the Missionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa is to be given a state funeral by the Indian government on Sept. 13, 1997.
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 Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a crafty grifter, is glorified in a high-school textbook
Mother T died in 1997, but the mythic persona which she and her handlers had so assiduously cultivated is still alive.
In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts on behalf of the homeless on the streets of Calcutta, India.
Mother T then sent to the trial judge a letter in which she sought clemency for Keating and exhorted the judge to "do what Jesus would do." The judge didn't reply, but a deputy district attorney, Paul Turley, did.
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 MOTHER TERESA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Mother Teresa deserves a special place in this huge communication network because her vocation is a message of love.
In 1931, Mother Teresa took the name of Teresa from the French nun Thérèse Martin, who was canonized in 1927 with the title St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
In 1948, Pope Pious XII granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun, and she began to share her life with the poor, the sick and the hungry of Calcutta.
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 Catholic Online - Catholic Life - Mother Teresa - Mother Teresa of Calcutta
On 10 September 1946, on a train journey from Calcutta to Darjeeling, Mother Teresa received what she termed the "call within a call," which was to give rise to the Missionaries of Charity family of Sisters, Brothers, Fathers, and Co-Workers.
Mother Teresa opened houses in Australia, the Middle East, and North America, and the first novitiate outside Calcutta in London.
Mother Teresa spoke at the fortieth anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly in October 1985.
www.catholic.org /clife/teresa   (682 words)

  
 CNN.com - Pope beatifies Mother Teresa - Oct. 20, 2003
A smiling portrait of Mother Teresa was unveiled in the square during the ceremony.
The destitute children who live at the homes Mother Teresa established in the eastern Indian city were able to watch her beatification from Vatican City on large screens.
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in 1910, Mother Teresa set up her Missionaries of Charity in the slums of Kolkata in 1950 and made her headquarters in the Indian city for nearly half a century.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/10/19/pope.mother.teresa   (911 words)

  
 Mother Teresa The Path of Love
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity.
She served as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, and was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city's streets.
In recognition of her efforts, Mother Teresa was bestowed many awards, including the Padma Shri award for distinguished service in 1962, The Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997.
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 Mother Teresa of Calcutta - Ascension of Immortal Saints
Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, the youngest of three children of an Albanian builder, on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia.
Mother Teresa was given a state funeral by the government of India on September 13, 1997.
Mother Mary, September 7, 1997 The Temple of The Presence, Copyright © 1997 The Temple of The Presence ™
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 Teresa, Mother on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Mother TERESA at her refuge of the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
Calcutta 3 February 1986.Pope John Paul II visited the Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) home run by Mother Teresa and her Sisters of Charity in Calcutta.She opened the home (PAR228196)
Mother TERESA giving her blessing to the sisters newly initiated into Christianity at St Mary's Church.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/t/teresa-m1.asp   (571 words)

  
 Mother Teresa Biography
Mother Teresa was always her own person, startlingly independent, obedient, yet challenging some preconceived notions and expectations.
As for clothing, Teresa decided she would set aside the habit she had worn during her years as a Loreto sister and wear the ordinary dress of an Indian woman: a plain white sari and sandals.
Teresa found a never-ending stream of human needs in the poor she met, and frequently was exhausted.
www.americancatholic.org /Features/Teresa/WhoWasTeresa.asp   (1334 words)

  
 Mother Theresa of Calcutta
Beloved Teresa, with the Guidance of the Ascended Masters in Council, chose this very time and hour for Her Transition in the Light in the wake of the passing of a Princess.
Mother Teresa's first orphanage was started in 1953, while in 1957 she and her Missionaries of Charity began working with lepers.
Mother Mary, September 7, 1997 The Temple of the Presence, Copyright © 1997 The Temple of The Presence™
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 Mother Theresa
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, missionary to "the poorest of the poor" and founder of the Missionaries of Charity religious order, died on September 5, 1997 in Calcutta, India, at the age of 87.
Mother Teresa is a woman who has marked the history of this century.
John Paul II referred to the occasions on which he met with Mother Teresa, and remembered "her minute figure, bent by a life lived in service to the poorest of the poor, but always full of inexhaustible inner energy: the energy of the love of Christ."
www.catholic.net /RCC/Periodicals/Inside/10-97/mother.html   (803 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Crowds cheer Mother Teresa beatification
Many of Mother Teresa's nuns, standing out from the crowd in their blue-trimmed white saris, wiped away tears, as the crowd cheered.
Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her decades of service to the sick and destitute.
Mother Teresa had her critics, who accused her of mixing with dictators and peddling a hardline Catholicism, says the BBC's Jane Little in Rome.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/3204362.stm   (724 words)

  
 Mother Teresa of Calcutta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Mother Teresa, the poor little one of Calcutta, and Frances, the poor little one of Assisi, had in common small, fragile bodies, sustained by an extraordinary strength of love.
Mother Teresa then garbed herself in the white sari with the blue striped border and the cross on the shoulder and succeeded in obtaining Indian citizenship.
Mother Teresa had a word for everyone who came to her attention, especially towards the least; she left a tremendous impression of her visit because what she said in words seemed to mirror her soul.
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 Mother Teresa | Humanitarian
Mother Teresa, whose original name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, was born on August 26, 1910 in what is now Skopje, Macedonia.
Mother Teresa has quietly but effectively devoted her life to the world's disadvantaged, spreading her message of hope from the slums of India to AIDS clinics in the United States.
More than a biography of Mother Teresa, this book articulates the core of her philosophy of suffering and joy.
www.lucidcafe.com /library/95aug/motherteresa.html   (512 words)

  
 Blessed Mother Teresa, Missionaries Of Charity, Order of Mother Theresa, Calcutta, Bangalore and the World
Mother Teresa expired on 5th September, Friday 1997 in Calcutta, incidently, this was also the day of Lady Diana's funeral in England.
A Mother of the Poor, A Mother of the Sick, A Mother of the Lonely, a Mother of the Unborn, A Mother of the People, May God's Strength be with You All through this time of Grief and Always.
Mother Teresa was A Jewel in India's Crown.
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 Mother Teresa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Although she had no children of her own, she possessed all of the qualities that we attribute to maternity; especially since she voluntarily took on the job of mother of the poor and of those who no longer had a mother on Earth.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born in Albania.
Mother Teresa established a congregation called the Missionaries of Charity.
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 Mother's Day: Famous Mothers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Mother Teresa, Woman of the Century by Pato.s of Peru
Mother Teresa of Calcuta was born in Albania.
We all know that Mary was Jesus's mother, but just some people know how she lived and why God chose her to be the mother of His son.
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 Early Years of Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa recalled later, "I was to leave the convent and work with the poor, living among them.
In 1948, the Vatican granted Sister Teresa permission to leave the Sisters of Loretto and pursue her calling under the jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Calcutta.
Mother Teresa started with a school in the slums to teach the children of the poor.
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 Mother Teresa, a Tribute To Her Life And Cause, albania, albanians, india, calcuta, mother,TERESA, MOTHER TERESA. .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Mother Teresa, a Tribute To Her Life And Cause, albania, albanians, india, calcuta, mother,TERESA, MOTHER TERESA.
A tribute to Mother Teresa, her life and the legacy she left behind.
This Mother Teresa site was designed by me with the sole purpose to let people all over the world know what a great, tireless humanitarian she was, and to raise the awareness about the problems that she dedicated her whole life to, which still exists.
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 Mother Theresa | Mother Teresa Photo | Pictures of Mother Teresa | Missionnaries of charity | Mother Teresa of ...
Landi Gjoni's tribute to Mother Teresa - her life and the legacy she left behind.This non-commercial Mother Teresa site was designed by me with the sole purpose to let people all over the world know what a great, tireless humanitarian she was,
Mother Teresa, on winning the Nobel Peace Prize - She said the Committee had recognized the world's poor by giving her the prize.
A speech given by Mother Teresa at the the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC
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 Mother Teresa of Calcutta
The whole of Mother Teresa's life and labor bore witness to the joy of loving, the greatness and dignity of every human person, the value of little things done faithfully and with love, and the surpassing worth of friendship with God.
She was given the honor of a state funeral by the Government of India and her body was buried in the Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity.
Less than two years after her death, in view of Mother Teresa's widespread reputation of holiness and the favors being reported, Pope John Paul II permitted the opening of her Cause of Canonization.
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 MOTHER TERESA: 1910-1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
 CALCUTTA, India (AP) -- Sisters of Mother Teresa's order sang and prayed over her simple tomb Sunday, a quiet tribute to an unassuming woman the day after the world said goodbye with an elaborate state funeral.
CALCUTTA -- Mother Teresa, the frail nun who became a one-woman world power for good, was buried in a simple grave yesterday in a quiet corner of the Missionaries of Charity compound.
 With Mother Teresa to the end were scores of sisters and brothers from the order she founded soon after coming to India from Albania after World War II to help the poorest of the poor in this famously impoverished city on the Ganges.
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