St. Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) was a remarkable woman who would be known as Mother Teresa began life named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, she was the youngest child born to Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu. Receiving her First Communion at the age of five, she was confirmed in November 1916. Her father died while she was only eight years old leaving her family in financial straits. She received the name Sister Mary Teresa after St. Therese of Lisieux and joined the congregation of the Sisters of Loreto.
It was on September 10, 1946 during a train ride from Calcutta to Darjeeling for her annual retreat, that Mother Teresa received her "inspiration, her call within a call." On that day, in a way she would never explain, Jesus' thirst for love and for souls took hold of her heart and the desire to satiate His thirst became the driving force of her life.
After nearly two years of testing and discernment passed before Mother Teresa and she received permission to begin. On August 17, 1948, she dressed for the first time in a white, blue-bordered sari and passed through the gates of her beloved Loreto convent to enter the world of the poor. She worked for the poorest of the poor and the most ill on the streets of Calcutta and founded the Missionaries of Charity.
Mother Teresa please pray for us to be see Jesus in every human like you did.
Patron of: World Youth Day.
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