Mother Teresa (1910-1997) was born in Yugoslavia, officially became a nun at the age of 37, went to Calcutta, India in 1948, and officially established the "Mission of Charity" two years later, trying to serve the poorest of the poor.
In 1979, the Nobel Committee selected her from a pool of 56 candidates, including U.S. President Carter, who brokered the Peace Talks between Egypt and Israel, and awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to a nun who had nothing but love.
Her reply was: "I personally do not deserve this honor." Today, I have come to accept this prize on behalf of the poor, the sick and the lonely in the world. "So it's the most natural thing for her to spend all this huge prize money on behalf of the poor and the suffering."
She also asked the Nobel Committee to cancel the usual award banquet. The Nobel Committee, of course, granted the request and gave the $7,100 saved to the "Mission of Charity" she headed. At the same time, there was a nationwide upsurge of donations to the Mission of Charity. Since then, her career has received increasing support from all over the world.
Teresa began to think about life at a young age, and at the age of 12, she realized that her vocation was to help the poor, which determined her life as a "living saint".
At the age of 17, she made her first wish to study at the Sisters of Laured in Ireland and then to Darjeeling, India; At the age of 27, she vowed to become a nun for life; After graduating, he taught geography and history at the Girls' School of Santa Maria, run by the Kolkata Order.
Kolkata's slums are numerous and dirty, notorious among the world's great cities, and indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has called the "City of Nightmares," and there are many monasteries where Teresa lives in the poorest and dirtiest of them.
In the eyes of this European woman, who lived an elegant European life within the high walls of the girls' school and the convent, the miserable, dilapidated, terrible and dirty environment around her, the skinny, dark-skinned, unclothed, stinking beggars, orphans, the old and the weak, the sick and the poor, were not only not to be escaped, but also not to be ignored: not only could not be ignored, but they had to be helped; Not only must it be helped, but it is worth loving!
So, out of love for the suffering and the desire to help them, she quit the Lloyd's Congregation and established a congregation dedicated to serving the suffering without compensation, the "Mission of Charity."
Penniless and with only two like-minded nuns as helpers, she first went to an American Nursing Nuns' Association to study medical care, then applied to the City Of Calcutta to go to two rooms in an old temple to treat the abandoned critically ill, to give careful care, to let the lonely dying receive end-of-life care in the caresses of the nuns, and finally to handle the aftermath according to the deceased's own religious beliefs and customs.
This was the first institution founded by the Charity Missionary Church and was called the "Pure Heart".
Subsequently, she set up an open-air school to house out-of-school children and homeless orphans, educating them and finding families for them who would be willing to adopt.
Soon after, she began to pay attention to the situation of lepers, a curable disease that was considered a plague, and the pain of the soul abandoned by those around her was far greater than the pain of the body.
Teresa opened many reception and treatment centers for leprosy patients, and many years later, the cure rate of leprosy in Chittagong, a large city in Bangladesh, reached 100%.
When AIDS began to be regarded as a new plague and the average person avoided the patient, Teresa traveled to Europe and the United States, setting up a number of AIDS shelters, and while the doctor treated, she and her nuns provided care.
From her teenage ambition to the time of her death, Teresa has been running and working for decades, and she still does not stop when she is seriously ill, just for the lowest and most miserable poor people in the world.