Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa was born in the town of Skopje on August 26, 1910. She left the convent and went to help the poor while living among them. She began a missionary work with the poor in 1948. By 1970, Mother Teresa became an international celebrity. Mother Teresa traveled to help the hungry Ethiopians. Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity used over 4,000 sisters and 300 brothers and over 100,000 lay volunteers to run 610 missions in 123 countries.

In 1979, Mother Teresa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Mother Teresa was one of the first to establish homes for AIDS victims. Mother Teresa was given a state funeral by the Indian government because of all her work for poor people. In 1983, after a battle with pneumonia in Mexico, she suffered with heart problems. She then suffered a heart attack in Rome in 1983, while visiting Pope John II. She resigned her position as head of the Missionaries of Charity. In 1991, Mother Teresa returned for the first time to her homeland. Mother Teresa opened the Missionaries of Charity in her brother’s home town of Tirana, Albania. After her second attack 1989 she became a peacemaker. Mother Teresa died on September 5, 1997, nine days after her 87th birthday.

Mother Teresa is a hero because she did her very best to help everyone who was in need more than her. She got an award for doing that.