Mother TeresaKelsey Williams

November 14, 2011

Background Information

Born: August 26, 1910

Died: September 5, 1997

Nationality: Indian

Major Accomplishment: Won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970

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Early Years

Age 12, she felt the strong call or God

Age 18, she left home and joined the Sisters of Loreto

May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun

Extravagant

Missionary

October 7, 1950 started her own order “The Missionaries of

Charity”

She was also an international missionary.

She was one of the greatest missionaries of all time.

By 1996 she was operating 517 missions in over 100 different

countries.

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The End Is Near

Mother Teresa suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983.

She had a second attack in 1989

She suffered pneumonia in 1991

She fell and broke her collar bone in 1996 and had heart surgery later that year

March 13, 1997 she stepped down as head of “Missionaries for Charity and later that year she passed away.

Life Goes On

Mother Teresa is a beloved soul.

She stills lives today, with in us all.

She is an inspiration to many.

And she is of the upmost greatest of all role models.