Mother teresa biography pdf

Profile and Biography

EARLY LIFE
 Born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of
Macedonia
She was baptized the following day as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhui. Her parents, Nikola and
Dranafile Bojaxhui were of Albanian Descent. Her father worked as a construction
contractor and a trader of medicines. Nikola was a vocal proponent involved in the local
church as well as in city politics. In 1919, her father died due to unknown reasons while
there were speculations that he was poisoned by political enemies. Later, Agnes became
attached to her mother who instilled in her a deep commitment to charity. 

 by age 12, she was convinced that she should commit herself to religious life

 in September 1928at age 18, she joinedInstitute of the Blessed Virgin Mary,
known as Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. 

 She received the name Sister Mary Teresa after St. Therese of Lisieux. In
December of 1929

EDUCATION
 Mother Teresa went to a convent-run primary school and then a state-run
secondary school. She used to sing solos in the local Sacred Heart choir and from
there she first felt a calling to religious life at the age of 12. Six years later, in
1928, an 18-year-old Agnes decided to become a nun and set off for Ireland to
join the sisters of Loreto in Dublin. It was there that she took the name Sister
Mary Teresa after Saint Theresa of Liseux.

NUNHOOD
 A year later, Sister Mary Teresa travelled to Darjeeling, India for the Novitiate
Period. In May 1931, she made her first profession of vows. Later, she went to
Calcutta, where she was assigned to teach at Saint Mary’s High School for Girls, a
school run by the Loreto sisters and dedicated to teaching girls from the city’s
poorest Bengali families. On May 24, 1937, she took her final profession of vows
to a life of poverty, chastity, and obedience. Later, she took on the title “Mother”
upon making her final vows and beca