LET US KNOW WHO WAS MOTHER TERESA
A girl was born at Scopje,a town in Yugoslavia on August 27,1910.Her name was Agnes Bojaxlen.Her parents were Albenians.They were very rich.But the girl had no attraction for wealth or riches.She cherished a desire to join the Christian Missionaries in India since her childhood.At the age of eighteen an opportunity came,and she became a nun;Agnes became Teresa.
Teresa came Calcutta in 1931.Here she became the Geography teacher of famous Convent School.She was in this school for sixteen years.
A great change came in her life in 1945.She was going to Darjeeling by train.On the way,She heard a voice from within,''Leave this happy life;live with the Orphans and the sick and serve them.''With the permission of the pope,she entered upon a new life.She out on a white saree and devoted herself to the service of the ill and ailing people.
It was the month of June.Calcutta was submerged under water.It was raining in torrents.In such a weather Teresa was walking by the side of the wall of the Medical college.All of the sudden,she tumbled down.She got up and found that an old woman was lying under knee-deep water.She took her up in her arms.She saw to her awe,that toes of the woman had been eaten by the rats.She took the dying woman to the Emergency ward of medical college hospital.The doctor examined her and said Teresa,''Please,take her away;we have nothing to do.''She took the dying patient in her arms again started for another hospital.But the ailing woman rid her of the trouble.She breathed her last on the way.Teresa laid the dead body on a piece of high land and prayed for her.
Next morning,Teresa went to the Corporation and sought and interview with the Mayor.She waited for many hours.At last Deputy Mayor not the Mayor called her in and asked her what she wanted.
I want to veil the shame of the city,replied she.
what do you mean?wondered the Deputy Mayor.Is't it not a shame for the city that people die here on the roads and streets,untreated and uncared for?she replied.Please let me have a home here.Where I may shelter them.Please,let them have the touch of love and affection before they die.''
Teresa got a house within a week.She named it''Nirmal Hridaya.''It was in kalighat near the temple of the Goddess kali.She was very glad to get this house;because the dying people wish to breathe their last in such a holy place.But she could not go with her work peacefully even for a week or two.
Teresa came Calcutta in 1931.Here she became the Geography teacher of famous Convent School.She was in this school for sixteen years.
A great change came in her life in 1945.She was going to Darjeeling by train.On the way,She heard a voice from within,''Leave this happy life;live with the Orphans and the sick and serve them.''With the permission of the pope,she entered upon a new life.She out on a white saree and devoted herself to the service of the ill and ailing people.
It was the month of June.Calcutta was submerged under water.It was raining in torrents.In such a weather Teresa was walking by the side of the wall of the Medical college.All of the sudden,she tumbled down.She got up and found that an old woman was lying under knee-deep water.She took her up in her arms.She saw to her awe,that toes of the woman had been eaten by the rats.She took the dying woman to the Emergency ward of medical college hospital.The doctor examined her and said Teresa,''Please,take her away;we have nothing to do.''She took the dying patient in her arms again started for another hospital.But the ailing woman rid her of the trouble.She breathed her last on the way.Teresa laid the dead body on a piece of high land and prayed for her.
Next morning,Teresa went to the Corporation and sought and interview with the Mayor.She waited for many hours.At last Deputy Mayor not the Mayor called her in and asked her what she wanted.
I want to veil the shame of the city,replied she.
what do you mean?wondered the Deputy Mayor.Is't it not a shame for the city that people die here on the roads and streets,untreated and uncared for?she replied.Please let me have a home here.Where I may shelter them.Please,let them have the touch of love and affection before they die.''
Teresa got a house within a week.She named it''Nirmal Hridaya.''It was in kalighat near the temple of the Goddess kali.She was very glad to get this house;because the dying people wish to breathe their last in such a holy place.But she could not go with her work peacefully even for a week or two.
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