More Info About Mother Teresa

More things about Mother Teresa.

      In 1950 Mother Teresa founded the missionaries of charity, which is a roman catholic religious congregation which had over 4500 sisters, and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The community was made to help manages homes for people dying from HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis. Soup kitchens, dispensaries and mobile clinics were there the help the children, and other families in need. Soon there where programs, orphanages and schools to help as well. Members who took vows to chastity, poverty, and obedience, also profess a forth vow to give to wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor. Mother Teresa has even received a figure during her life and after her death. Mother Teresa was born Anjeze Gonxhe (or Gonxha) Bojaxihiu. Anjeze is a cognate of Agnes. Gonxha means rosebud or little flower. On September 1946 Mother Teresa experienced what she later described as “the call within the call. Then when she travelled by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. Joseph Langford later wrote, “I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was an order. To fail would have been to break the faith. Though no one knew it at the time, Sister Teresa had just become Mother Teresa. shunned by everyone. By 1997 the 13-member Calcutta congregation.