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Jun 7, 2011 · “Simply the best biography of Mother Teresa around. Thoroughly researched, sensitively written and unfailingly inspiring, Kathryn Spink’s book should be, after Mother Teresa’s own writings, your first resource for understanding one of the greatest saints in Christian history.”
- Kathryn Spink
Mother Teresa. : Kathryn Spink. Harper Collins, 1997 - Biography & Autobiography - 306 pages. During her lifetime, Mother Teresa resisted having her full biography written. Then, in 1991, realizing that accounts of her life and work could inspire others, she gave Kathryn Spink, who had long been intimately involved with the work of Mother ...
For the full article, see Mother Teresa . Blessed Mother Teresa, orig. Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, (born Aug. 27, 1910, Skopje, Maced., Ottoman Empire—died Sept. 5, 1997, Calcutta, India; beatified Oct. 19, 2003), Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity. The daughter of a grocer, she became a nun and went to India ...
During the last years of her life, despite increasingly severe health problems, Mother Teresa continued to govern her Society and respond to the needs of the poor and the Church. By 1997, Mother Teresa's Sisters numbered nearly 4,000 members and were established in 610 houses in 123 countries.
Sep 5, 1997 · Mother Teresa. Date of Birth: August 26, 1910. Place of Birth: Skopje, Ottoman Empire (currently Republic of Macedonia) Parents: Nikola Bojaxhiu (Father) and Dranafile Bojaxhiu (Mother) Institution: Missionaries of Charities. Religious Views: Roman Catholic. Death: September 5, 1997. Place of Death: Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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. Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Gonxha Agnes Bojaxhiu) was born of Albanian parents in Skopje in 1910.
Sep 17, 2008 · She became Mother Teresa after making her final vows. Question: Why did Mother Teresa start her own hospice? Answer: Mother Teresa’s “call” was caring for the sick and poor. In 1952, she established a hospice where the terminally ill could die with dignity. At the time of her death, Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity had over 4,000 ...
