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words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless"
In Calcutta, Sister Teresa taught geography and cathechism at St. Mary's High School. In 1944, she became the principal of St. Mary's. Soon Sister Teresa contracted tuberculosis, was unable to continue teaching and was sent to Darjeeling for rest and recuperation. It was on the train to Darjeeling that she received her second call -- "the call within the call". Mother Teresa recalled later, "I was to leave the convent and work with the poor, living among them. It was an order from God. Research: Priyali S., Animation: Nooria S P., Sanskriti School. Bibliography: Photos: |
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Mother
Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August
27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve,
she felt strongly the call of
God. She
knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. 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 and she chose the name Teresa after
Saint Therese of Lisieux. 
