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Mother Teresa: a small pencil in God's hands

His secular name was Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. He was born August 27, 1910 in Skopje, when the city was still Albanian to become the first Yugoslavia. Mother Teresa was able to revise its homeland after the fall of the communist regime. Even if the strongest link him closely with India. In those lands is linked to the meaning of his mission. At the age of eighteen years, driven by the desire to become a missionary, Gonxha left his house in September 1928, in order to enter the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as "the Sisters of Loreto, in Ireland. There he received the name Sister Mary Teresa, as Saint Teresa of Lisieux. In December, left for India, arriving in Calcutta on January 6, 1929. The May 24, 1937 Sister Teresa made the profession of vows. From that day was always called Mother Teresa. The September 10, 1946, during the journey by train from Calcutta to Darjeeling for the annual retreat, Mother Teresa received l ' "inspiration", what she herself called the "call in the call"

Not ever revealed what happened on that trip, but it was then that he decided to found a religious community, the Missionaries of Charity, dedicated to serving the poorest of the poveri.Il August 17, 1948, put for the first time the white sari edged d 'blue, which has characterized his mission and all those who have followed his esempio.Il October 7, 1950 the new Congregation of the Missionaries of Charity was officially recognized in the Archdiocese of Calcutta. In early 1960 Mother Teresa began to send her sisters in other parts of India. The Pontifical Right granted to the Congregation by Pope Paul VI in February 1965 encouraged the home to open a mission in Venezuela. It immediately followed other foundations in Rome and Tanzania, and thereafter in all continents. Starting from 1980 until 1990, Mother Teresa opened houses mission in nearly all communist countries, including the former Soviet Union, Albania and Cuba.Intanto numerous honours, starting with the Indian Padmashri Award in 1962 and the relevant Award Nobel for Peace in 1979, gave credit to his work, while the media began to follow its activities with interest increasingly crescente.Nel 1997, the year of death of Mother Teresa, the sisters that you were referring about 4,000, present in 697 houses scattered mission in 131 countries mondo.Nel March 1997 blessed the newly-elected Sister Nirmala new Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity and was still a trip abroad. On September 5, 1997 died.

Mother Teresa in Calcutta disappeared on the evening of Friday September 5, 1997, to 21.30. He was 87 years. The July 26, 1999 began with as many as three years in advance on the five planned by the Church, its process of beatification, and what will of S. Father who, as a wholly exceptional, I wanted to accelerate the process. For the people Mother Teresa is already holy

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