Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life. She pledged herself to a religious order at the age of 18 and chose the name Sister Teresa, after the patron saint of missionaries. While teaching in India, where famine and violence had devastated the poor, Teresa shed her habit and walked the streets of Calcutta tending to the needs of the destitute. Her charity work soon expanded internationally, and her name remains synonymous with compassion and devotion to the poor.

Traces the life of the Catholic nun who devoted her life to the poor, sick, and social outcasts of Calcutta.

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Known throughout her life as Mother Teresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta spent her whole life working for the poor and the underprivileged. Born in 1910, Saint Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun and missionary who moved to India and founded the Missionaries of Charity. Even after her death in 1997, the Missionaries of Charity is working for people dying with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and leprosy, running orphanages, schools and soup kitchens, operating dispensaries and mobile clinics, and providing counseling to children and their families. There are more than 5,000 sisters associated with this Roman Catholic organization and it is active in 133 countries around the world, all thanks to their founder, Mother Teresa. After her death, the process of canonization began with beatification, which proved that she had done miracles. Thus, in 2016 Mother Teresa became Saint Teresa of Calcutta. So, who was Mother Teresa? Where was she born and what prompted her to commit to a life dedicated to the service of others? How has she served humankind and how was she honored for her service? Let’s find out in this e-book dedicated to the life of Saint Teresa of Calcutta.

Highlights how Mother Teresa demonstrated kindness during her life.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was the founder of the Missionaries ofCharity and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, but her story is so much moreremarkable. From her childhood in the Balkans to her work in India, from attendingthe victims of war-torn Beirut to pleading with George Bush and Saddam Husseinto choose peace over war, Mother Teresa was driven by a mighty faith. Newly revised and updated, this edition includes a personal insight into thebeatification and continuing process of canonization for Mother Teresa, theongoing work of the Missionaries of Charity, and her “dark night of the soul.” Mother Teresa consistently claimed that she was simply responding to Christ’sboundless love for her and for all of humanity, bringing to the world a great lessonin joyful and selfless love. This book is a glimpse into her extraordinary faith,work, and life.

Examines the life of a Catholic woman, teacher, and missionary who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for aiding the poor and dying in India.

A biography of Mother Teresa, a nun working in Calcutta, India, who has dedicated her life to doing what she could to help those who suffered from loneliness or poverty. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

Describes the life of the nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity, gained wide recognition for her humaniitarian efforts in Calcutta and elsewhere, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.

After finding Mother Teresa's alms bowl in Mr. Rummage's market stall, Digby and his sister Hannah listen to his tale of the nun's life and her many acts of charity in India.

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One of the world's most recognized and loved spiritual leaders, Mother Teresa has inspired millions with her extraordinary example of compassionate and selfless work for the poor, the ill, and the outcast. Considered by many to be a saint, she was a steadfast voice of love and faith, providing immeasurable kindness and guidance to the world's downtrodden. No Greater Love is the essential wisdom of Mother Teresa — the most accessible and inspirational collection of her teachings ever published. This definitive volume features Mother Teresa on love, prayer, giving, service, poverty, forgiveness, Jesus, and more. It ends with a biography and a revealing conversation with Mother Teresa about the specific challenges and joys present in her work with the poor and the dying. No Greater Love is a passionate testament to Mother Teresa's deep hope and abiding faith in God and the world. It will bring readers into the heart of this remarkable woman, showing Mother Teresa's revolutionary vision of Christianity in its graceful, poetic simplicity. Through her own words, No Greater Love celebrates the life and work of one of the great humanitarians of our time.

A biography of Mother Teresa that pays close attention to how her childhood in Albania affected her spiritual and pastoral development.

A personality of Mother Teresa's calibre and global reach does not come about by chance. To provide a well-rounded portrait of this influential figure, this book approaches her in the context of her familial background and ethnic, cultural and spiritual milieus. Her life and work are explored in the light of newly-discovered information about her family, the Albanian nation's spiritual tradition before and after the advent of Christianity, and the impact of the Vatican and other influential powers on her people since the early Middle Ages. Focusing on her traumas, ordeals and achievements as a private individual and a public missionary, and her complex spirituality, this book contends that Mother Teresa's life and her nation's history, especially her countrymen's relationship with Roman Catholicism, are interconnected. Unravelling this interconnectedness is essential to understanding how this modern spiritual and humanitarian icon has come to epitomise her ancient nation's cultural and spiritual DNA.

The woman of a nation is the mirror to its civilization. The condition of a nation is determined by the status of its women. This series presents the short biographies of great Indian women in different fields that act as a source of inspiration and motivation for children to excel in the field of activities they arc related with.

Presents the life and accomplishments of the devoted Catholic and one of the world's most beloved humanitarians, who, through her life's work of helping the poor in India, won a Nobel Peace Prize and became beatified by the Pope.

Mary Poplin's chronicle of her volunteer work with the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta provides an inside glimpse into Mother Teresa's life of service to the poor. Transformed by the experience, Poplin discovered how all of us can find our own places of meaningful work and service.

Mother Teresa: Living in Love is a collection of nearly 100 of Mother Teresa's greatest quotes on love, weaved around the author's own story of her search for spiritual significance. Author's work on book blessed by Mother Teresa. Portion of royalties are going to Missionaries of Charity.

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." - Mother Teresa It was on a train from Calcutta to Darjeeling that Mother Teresa first heard the call. A voice beckoned her to leave the sheltered life of the convent and come out to serve the poorest of the poor. That voice changed her life completely and also the lives of everyone she touched. Though Albanian by birth, Mother Teresa made India her home. Humbly, yet firmly, Mother set to work trying to heal the world's greatest disease, of being unwanted and unloved'. At the time of her death, the world acknowledged her as one of the most enduring symbols of love.

Mother Teresa worked among the poorest of the poor. Her compassion impacted and inspired millions of people. Historic photos and easy-to-read text take readers into her story. Key dates, quick stats, and bolded glossary terms make it easy to zoom in even deeper. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Zoom is a division of ABDO.