Mother Teresa
Religious Figure / Humanitarian
Born: 27 August 1910
Died: 5 September 1997
Birthplace: Skopje, Macedonia
Best known as: Humanitarian nun of Calcutta, called "The Saint of the Gutters"
Name at birth: Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Mother Teresa grew famous for humbly ministering to lepers, the homeless and the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. In 1928 Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Lareto, a Catholic order that did charity work in India. She took the name Sister Teresa and for 17 years taught school in the country. In 1950 she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a new order devoted to helping the sick and poor; the order grew to include branches in more than 100 cities around the world, and Mother Teresa became a worldwide symbol of charity, meeting with Princess Diana and many other public figures. In 1979 Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, and in 1985 she was awarded the Medal of Freedom from the United States.
Extra credit: She was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 19 October 2003, placing her one step from sainthood in the Catholic faith; after beatification she became known as the Blessed Mother Teresa of Kolkata... Though her parents were ethnic Albanians, Mother Teresa was born in what is now Macedonia and what was then part of the Ottoman Empire. Some sources give her date of birth as August 26th, not August 27th.
特蕾莎修女，（Mother Teresa of Calcutta，1910年8月27日—1997年9月5日，又稱做德蘭修女、泰瑞莎修女），她於1910年出生於前南斯拉夫的斯科普里（南斯拉夫東南部城市，馬其頓首都）。她是家中三個孩子中最小的，在他十多歲，成為一名當地（稱作Sodality的）聯宜會的成員，在Jesuit priest的影響下，她成為一名傳教士。在17歲時，她加入天主教的修女。她參加一個愛爾蘭組織（the Sisters of Loretto），該組織在印度做傳教活動。她加入該組織後，（跟隨Saint Thérèse of Lisieux）改名為Teresa。父親是建築工人；年輕時學習宗教，熱愛眾人；她在愛爾蘭成為修女，1929年前往印度，在那裡教了許多年的地理；她一生關愛窮人，1979年獲諾貝爾和平獎；1997年逝世，享年87歲印度著名的慈善家，印度天主教仁愛傳教會創始人，在世界範圍內建立了一個龐大的慈善機構網，贏得了國際社會的廣泛尊敬。Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, in the former Yugoslavia, she was the youngest of three children. In her teens, Agnes became a member of a youth group in her local pairsh called Sodality. Through her involvement with their activities guided by a Jesuit priest, Agnes became interested in missionaries. At age 17, she responded to her first call of a vocation as a Catholic missionary nun. She joined an Irish order, the Sisters of Loretto, a community known for their missionary work in India. When she took her vows as a Sister of Loretto, she chose the name Teresa after Saint Thérèse of Lisieux.Her father was a builder.When she was young,Mother Teresa studied religion and loved everyone.She became a nunin Irealand and left for India in 1929.She taught Geography for many years in India.She spent her life caring for the poor.Mother Teresa was awarded the Noble Peace Prize in 1979.She died in 1997 when she was 87.
