Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a Catholic nun and missionary who dedicated her life to serving the poor in India. She was born in Albania in 1910 and moved to India in 1928, where she joined the Sisters of Loreto. In 1946, she founded the Missionaries of Charity order to care for the poor and sick in Kolkata. Over the following decades, she expanded her order across India and the world, establishing homes and hospices. Mother Teresa received numerous honors for her humanitarian work, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. She died in 1997 after dedicating her life to serving "the unwanted, the unloved, the uncared for."

1. Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(1910-1997)
 Albanian origin and Indian
citizenship, was a Catholic nun,
small in stature but strong in his
faith, his mission was to proclaim
God's thirsting love for humanity,
especially the poorest of the poor.
This great woman was born on
August 26, 1910. It was the younger of
two children, eight years old his
father died and his family poverty
increases. She was a member of the
Jesuit parish of the Sacred Heart.

2.  When she was 18 in 1928, left home to join the
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as
the Sisters of Loreto, in Ireland, inspired by his
desire to be a missionary. He received the name
Sister Mary Teresa. That same year, in
December began his trip to India, arriving in
Calcutta in January.
 In 1937 he took his oath and was called Mother
Teresa Was known for her charity,
unselfishness and courage, her capacity for
work and his natural talent for organization.
In 1946 he received the call of Jesus to the
religious congregation founded Missionaries of
Charity. In August 1948 for the first time
dressed in white sari to enter the world of the
poor. She went out, rosary in hand, to find and
serve Him in "the unwanted, the unloved, the
uncared for."

3.  After a few months began to join her, one by
one, her former students.
 In 1960, Mother Teresa began to send her
Sisters to other parts of India and in 1965
opened a house in Venezuela, Rome and
Tanzania, among others. She opened houses in
almost all former communist countries
including the Soviet Union, Albania and Cuba.

During these years of rapid growth the world
began to look at Mother Teresa and the work
she had initiated. Numerous awards, beginning
with the Indian Padmashri Award in 1962 and
so much more notorious Nobel Peace Prize in
1979, honored his work. At the same time, the
media began to follow her activities with a
growing interest. She received both prizes and
attention "to the glory of God and on behalf of
the poor."

4.  All life and work of Mother Teresa was a
witness to the joy of loving, the greatness and
dignity of every human person, the value of
little things done faithfully and love and the
incomparable value of friendship with God. But
there was another heroic side of this woman
who came to light only after his death.

During the last years of his life, despite
increasingly severe health problems, Mother
Teresa continued to govern her Society and
respond to the needs of the poor and the
Church.
On September 5, dies in India. The
Government granted the honor of holding a
state funeral and his body was buried at the
Motherhouse of the Missionaries of Charity.
Her tomb quickly became a place of pilgrimage
and prayer for people of faith and different
social background (rich and poor alike).

5.  Mother Teresa left us the
example of a strong faith, of
an invincible hope and
extraordinary charity. His
response to the call of Jesus,
"Come be my light," made her
a Missionary of Charity, a
"mother to the poor", a
symbol of compassion for the
world and a living witness to
the thirst of love God.

6.  Thank you!