Mother Teresa, the holy mother of all, who treated and cared for every one like her own child. Her aim in life was to help the help less and spread happiness and cheers all around. She was popularly referred as Angel of Mercy across the world.
Mother of not only the poor and sufferings and the unwanted, lonely and rejected ones but every Indian.

Life History:

It is believed that Mother Teresa was Almighty’s gift to our nation. As if she descended from heaven especially to serve and free the downtrodden from hunger, pain and suffering.

Mother Teresa who was born on August 27, 1910 and basically belonged to Yugoslavia came to India along with other missionaries from her place to render humanitarian services, when country was facing the darker days of British slavery.

Agnes Goxa Bojaxiu was in her teens, when she first entered India in 1929 and was so much moved by the miserable condition of Indians at that time that she decided to dedicate all her life to serve the sick and the poor. Later the lady by her self less services helped many needy people of India and was lovingly referred by every one as Mother Teresa.

 

Mother Teresa devoted all her life in serving the mankind without thinking about herself. She faced many problems and lived in a single room but with her high spirits helped many home less people. Her every action was marked by three pillars of Compassion, dignity and sympathy.

Mission of Charity

Few of her establishments for improvement of downtrodden sect of the society are 'Missionaries of Charity', ' Nirmal Hriday', and 'Shishu Bhavan' whish houses the mentally and physically challenged children and many more. Mother Teresa has about thousands of similar kind institutions.

Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and the Bharat Ratna in 1980. Besides these she also received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Peace (1972), Ramon Magsaysay Award (1962) and the Templeton Foundation Award (1973).

Mother Teresa always remained humble and kind despite of all the public acclaim, national and international honors and finally departed the worldly matters in September 1997.

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