Mother Teresa was an angel in the form of human, who did service to humanity. She born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 27, 1910 in a place called Skopje, Macedonia to her Albanian parents. She was the youngest of the three siblings and her father was a successful merchant. When she was 18 years old, she joined the sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns, and left to India for their missions. She got trained at the institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin for few months, before reaching to India.

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Mother Teresa took her vow as a nun on May 24, 1931. Though she started her service as a teacher who taught geography and catechism to the students of St. Mary’s High school in Calcutta, the poverty and poor people made impacts on her life. She got permission from her superiors and left her job in 1948 to start her service to the poorest of the poor, who lived in the slums of Calcutta, suffering like animals.

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She took a short course with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna. She stayed along with the Little Sisters of the poor and conducted open-air schools for the children of homeless people. Slowly her service got noticed and she received help and financial support from authorities and organizations. Later, on October 7, 1950, she got permission to start her won “Missionaries of Charity” from the Vatican.

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When the entire world looked at the people suffering with leprosy with hatred, Mother Teresa hugged them with love and treated them with care. The Missionaries of Charity which was started with 12 members in Calcutta is now having more than 4000 nuns and they are taking care of lots of orphanages, charity centers (worldwide), homeless people, refugees, blind & disabled people. Now this “Missionaries of Charity” is there in more than 100 countries.

Her service was praised and recognized all over the world. She received

1.       Pope John XXIII Peace prize in the year 1971

2.       Nehru Prize for Promotion of International Peace and Understanding in the year 1972

3.       Balzan Prize in the year 1978

4.       Nobel Peace Prize for the year 1979

5.       Bharat Ratna award for the year 1980

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She stepped down from the head position of “Missionaries of Charity” in the year 1997 on March 13. She celebrated her 87th birthday on August 27, 1997 and died after few days on September 5, 1997. After her death, the Holy See started the process of beatification, which is the second step towards canonization. In the year 2002, as an Indian Woman named Monica Besra told that a beam of rays from Mother Teresa’s picture cured her abdomen Tumor, Vatican recognized it as a miracle done by Teresa and hence beatified her along with the title “Blessed Teresa of Calcutta” in the year 2003, October 19. Canonization will happen if a second miracle happens.

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Though there were lots of opposition happened in her early days of service, that she do service only to the poor people who get converted to Christianity and forces people towards Christianity, no one can refuse her great service to humanity, which most of these complaining people couldn’t even think of.