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These days I happened to come across with a book about the life of a simple nun who had given her life for the welfare of thousands of Indian citizens. She was given the Peace Novel prize for all her work in India. She was born with the name of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. But we all know her as Mother Theresa. Her place of birth was Skopje in Macedonia. When she was 18, she 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 Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for children who were living on the streets and were very poor. 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.
Mother Theresa did not only tried to end up poverty. She wanted make poor and ill people know that they were cared and loved. She said that Western civilizations had more money than the Oriental countries but that the first were in need of love, and affection. Not being loved was worse than poverty she said.
She died at the age of 83. Once a journalist asked her if she was tired because of all the activities she had done throughtout her life, and she said that never one is too old to love.
Today the order comprises Active and Contemplative branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world.
At last, One of Mother Theresa's thoughts was that if any person wanted do the same as she did in India did not need to travel to this country because in every country there are many poor people to look after. She was right, don't you think?