Mother Teresa travelled to India following her training at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Dublin for a few months. The first vows she took as a nun were taken on May 24, 1931. Mother Teresa was a geography and catechism teacher at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta from 1931 to 1948. But Mother Teresa's mentality was profoundly affected by the widespread poverty in Calcutta, and in 1948, her superiors gave her permission to quit the convent school and focus on serving the city's impoverished.
There were two especially terrible times for her in Calcutta. The first was the 1943 Bengal famine, and the second, which occurred prior to India's division, was the violence between Muslims and Hindus in 1946. She moved out of the convent in 1948 to live among Calcutta's impoverished people full-time. Out of respect for traditional Indian attire, she opted to wear a white Indian sari with a blue border. Mother Teresa and a small group of other sisters made do for many years with meagre wages and meagre supplies of food, frequently resorting to begging for money. However, the local community and Indian officials gradually took notice of and admired her work with the poorest.
Her first facility for the terminally ill, which let people to pass away with dignity, was opened in 1952. Mother Teresa spent a lot of time tending to the dying. Some have condemned them for not providing enough medical care and for not providing painkillers. Some claim that it gave a lot of neglected people the chance to pass away knowing that someone was thinking about them.
In Calcutta, the Missionaries of Charity started out as a small Order with just 12 members. Today, there are over 4,000 nuns serving in orphanages, AIDS hospices, charity centres, and Asia, Africa, Latin America, North America, Poland, and Australia. They also care for refugees, the blind, disabled, elderly, alcoholics, impoverished, and homeless, as well as victims of floods, epidemics, and famine. Mother Teresa was given authorization by Pope Paul VI in 1965 to extend her order to other nations through a Decree of Praise. Venezuela was home to the order's first residence outside of India. The "Missionaries of Charity" are currently present in over 100 nations.
Pope Francis canonised Mother Teresa on September 4, 2016, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City in front of tens of thousands of people, including 1,500 homeless individuals from various parts of Italy and 15 official delegations. Only after the Vatican verified that Pope Francis had acknowledged a second miracle (on December 17, 2015) ascribed to Mother Teresa—the recovery of a Brazilian man afflicted with several brain tumors—was the sainthood completed.
Her first facility for the terminally ill, which let people to pass away with dignity, was opened in 1952. Mother Teresa spent a lot of time tending to the dying. Some have condemned them for not providing enough medical care and for not providing painkillers. Some claim that it gave a lot of neglected people the chance to pass away knowing that someone was thinking about them.
"For work undertaken in the struggle to overcome poverty and distress, which also constitutes a threat to peace," she was granted the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. Despite not attending the formal banquet, she requested that the $192,000 sum be distributed to the underprivileged..
The labour increased with time. missionaries were established abroad, and as of 2013, more than 700 missionaries were functioning in more than 130 nations. Their purview also widened to encompass hospices for the terminally ill and orphanages.
Mother Teresa resigned as the leader of the Missionaries of Charity on March 13, 1997, and she passed away on September 5, 1997, only nine days after turning 87. The Holy See started the beatification procedure after Mother Teresa passed away. Beatification is the second stage on the path to potential sainthood or canonization. Documentation of a miracle accomplished via Mother Teresa's intercession is necessary for this process. The Vatican declared in 2002 that Monica Besra, an Indian woman, had miraculously healed from a tumour in her belly after applying a necklace holding Teresa's photo. According to Monica Besra, a laser beam appeared from the image and removed the cancerous tumour. On October 19, 2003, Pope John Paul II officially declared Mother Teresa to be Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. She needs to perform a second miracle in order to be declared canonical.
Pope Francis canonised Mother Teresa on September 4, 2016, in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City in front of tens of thousands of people, including 1,500 homeless individuals from various parts of Italy and 15 official delegations. Only after the Vatican verified that Pope Francis had acknowledged a second miracle (on December 17, 2015) ascribed to Mother Teresa—the recovery of a Brazilian man afflicted with several brain tumors—was the sainthood completed.
The canonization ceremony was carried live online as well as on the Vatican television station. Not only was a special Mass celebrated at the Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India, but Mother Teresa's hometown of Skopje also hosted a seven-day festival in honour of her canonization.
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