Mother Teresa Would Constantly Be Guilting People on Facebook
“Mother Teresa. She’d be that Facebook friend who constantly invited you to like pages and join groups to save some little girl’s life.” If you want to see photography and film of a living saint, look no further than archives about Mother Teresa. During her lifetime Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa, became famous as the Catholic nun who dedicated her life to caring for the destitute and dying in the slums of Calcutta – now known as Kolkata. At the age of eighteen, she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months’ training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun.
From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary’s High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work. She then went on to open her own Mission in Calcutta. With two miracles approved, Pope Francis canonized Mother Teresa a saint on September 4, 2016—just a day shy of the 19th anniversary of her passing.
Related: Mother Teresa: 8 Reasons Why Some Believe She Was No Saint.