MOTHER TERESA “Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” - Mother Teresa   Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to (46) _______ the poor. Considered one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th century, she was officially recognised as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.   Born in 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, Mother Teresa taught in India (47) _______ 17 years before in 1946 she ...

MOTHER TERESA

“Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.” - Mother Teresa

  Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to (46) _______ the poor. Considered one of the greatest humanitarians of the 20th century, she was officially recognised as Saint Teresa of Calcutta in 2016.

  Born in 1910, in Skopje, Macedonia, Mother Teresa taught in India (47) _______ 17 years before in 1946 she experienced her “call within a call” to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor. (48) _______ Teresa enjoyed teaching at the school, she was increasingly upset by the poverty surrounding her in Calcutta: the Bengal famine of 1943 and the outbreak of Hindu/Muslim violence in August 1946. Her order established a nursing home; centres for (49) _______ blind, aged, and disabled; and a leper colony. In 1979 she (50) _______ the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work. She died in September 1997 and was beatified in October 2003.