Historic Figures Who Were Secretly Terrible People

Historic Figures Who Were Secretly Terrible People

Shannon Quinn - March 6, 2023

Historic Figures Who Were Secretly Terrible People
Saint Mother Teresa wasn’t so saintly. Credit: Shutterstock

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Mother Teresa Pocketed Money While People Died Slow and Painful Deaths

The Catholic Church glorified Mother Teresa as being one of the most selfless women in history, and they quite literally made her a Saint. During her lifetime, Teresa opened 517 missions around the world, many of which were in impoverished parts of India. She raised millions of dollars for her cause, under the guise that she was giving the poorest people in the world medical care, food, and shelter. But it turns out that over one-third of the people in these missions were dying, and they didn’t receive any medical care at all. The people were suffering so badly that investigators compared them to concentration camp prisoners from the Holocaust. When someone tried to confront Mother Teresa about the condition of these patients, she said, “There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion. The world gains much from their suffering.”

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