Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born in Albania in 19 10. Influenced by Tagore, a great Indian poet, she left her hometown at the age of 18 and went to India to join in charity. From 65438 to 0949, Mother Teresa founded a charity in Calcutta, and based on this, she carried out charity work in India to help orphans, the poor, the elderly and leprosy patients.

Mother Teresa has established more than 50 schools, hospitals, poverty alleviation centers, youth centers and orphanages in India and other countries. She has successively won the Nehru Prize, the Joseph Kennedy Foundation Prize and the Pope Pope John XXIII Peace Prize, and won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize.

1On September 5th, 997, Theresa died of a heart attack in Kolkata at the age of 87. Mother Teresa, whose real name is agnes gonxha bojaxhiu, is an Albanian. She was born in Skopje, the capital of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, in Kosovo, Ottoman province. It's near the stone bridge in the old town of Skopje. Father Nikolla Bojaxhiu is a successful local grocery store contractor, and mother's name is Dranafila Bojaxhiu. She is the youngest daughter, with brother and sister (who later became a nun). She speaks Albanian and comes from a Catholic family. Most of the cities where she lives are Muslims and Orthodox Christians, with only a few Catholics.

Mother Teresa was born in the year of Albanian rebellion. Two years later, the Balkan War broke out, and the First World War broke out in 19 14.

Mother Teresa seldom mentioned her childhood. When my father died at the age of 8 (19 18), my mother shouldered the burden of the whole family and took care of three children. 10 (1920) years old, she went to Croatia to study. She once said that when she joined a Catholic children's charity at the age of 12, she felt that her future career was to help the poor. /kloc-When she was 0/5 years old, she and her sister decided to go to India for missionary training. /kloc-joined the Irish Sisters of loretto at the age of 0/8 and received missionary training in Dublin and Darjeeling. 193 1 year, Mother Teresa officially became a nun. 1937 May, she decided to become a nun for life, and changed her name to Mother Teresa according to the name and spirit of Saint Teresa, the most famous nun in France19th century. In the early 1940s, Mother Teresa served as the principal of Saint Mary loretto convent middle school. But at that time, the gap between the rich and the poor was very wide, and the school was peaceful. But outside the school, the streets were full of helpless lepers, beggars and street children. 1September, 946 10, Mother Teresa spent a year in a convent in Darjeeling, India, and felt strongly that she wanted to serve the poor. After returning to Calcutta, she asked the local archbishop to leave the school and monastery, but she never got permission.

1947, East Pakistan became independent from India, and tens of thousands of refugees poured into Kolkata, most of them Hindus who were afraid of being persecuted by Muslims. Infectious diseases such as cholera and leprosy broke out in the streets and lanes, so the streets and high walls of Calcutta became more and more like hell, tormenting Mother Teresa's heart. At the constant request of the Archbishop and the Vatican, on 1948, she was given a community and residence to help the poor in need. Mother Teresa immediately went to receive medical training and asked for help. 1950, 10 In June, Mother Teresa and others 12 founded the Charity Missionary Society; ; Also known as Ji Bo), the nun's dress in the church was changed into a traditional salon for Indian women, and a simple blue border was set on the white cloth to become the uniform of Sister Ji Bo. One day, Mother Teresa went to Bataan Hospital to discuss her work. She found an old woman lying on the road near the station as if she were dead. Mother Teresa squatted down and took a closer look: rags wrapped around her feet were covered with ants. It seems that a mouse bit a hole in her head, and she still has blood. The wound was covered with flies and maggots. She quickly measured the old woman's breath and pulse, as if she still had a breath. She drove away flies, ants, blood and maggots for the old woman. Teresa thinks that if she is left lying there, she will die. So she temporarily gave up her trip to Bataan Island and asked someone to help send the old woman to a nearby hospital. At first, the hospital ignored the old woman who had no family, but under the repeated entreaties of Mother Teresa, the doctor treated the old woman, and then said to Mother Teresa, "You must be hospitalized temporarily. When you are out of danger, you need to find a place to rest." Mother Teresa entrusted the patient to the hospital and immediately went to the city hall for a health class, hoping to provide a place for poor patients to recuperate. The head of CCBA medical care class is a warm-hearted person. After listening carefully to Mother Teresa's request, he took her to a famous Kari temple in Calcutta and promised to provide him with a place for believers to worship for free behind the temple. At first, they were strongly opposed by the Brahmins in the Indian parish on the grounds that Mother Teresa was not Indian. But Mother Teresa was not afraid of opposition. She still helped many dying patients in the street and went to the shelter to clean them and give them a place to rest, including Hindu monks. This touched many Indians, and the opposition gradually subsided.

Since finding this foothold, in less than a day, the nuns have settled more than 30 poorest and most miserable people. One of the old people died the night he moved here. Before he died, he took Teresa's hand and whispered in Bengali: "I lived like a dog all my life, and now I die like a person, thank you."

It is impossible to help the dying in Calcutta by relying on the work of Mother Teresa and nuns, but Mother Teresa has her own unique views. She believes that human misfortune does not exist in poverty, disease or hunger. The real misfortune is that when people are sick or poor, no one helps them. Even if they die, they should have a home before they die. This is Mother Teresa spreading the love of the Lord to dying people. 1948, 38-year-old Mother Teresa left Irish loretto Abbey and came to Kolkata. The first thing she did was to take off the blue cassock that Sister loretto wore and put on the white cotton yarn that Indian civilian women often wear.

Mother Teresa works in the slum behind the station. There are shabby huts and dirty children in rags everywhere. One day, a Bengali-speaking child asked Mother Teresa for something. The child has only one leg, and the broken leg is still bleeding. When Mother Teresa was about to get medicine to dress him, the child said what he wanted to eat, pretending to eat as he spoke. At this time, she only had five rupees on her, so she said to the child apologetically, "I am a poor nun, and I can only bandage your wound." Just as he was about to help him with his medicine, the child suddenly grabbed the medicine, shouted "Give this to me" and ran to the slum on crutches. Mother Teresa wanted to know what had happened. She followed the child into a hut. It was dark in the shack, and a woman could be seen lying on the board, with a baby and a five-year-old girl beside her. These three people are skinny, glassy-eyed and very weak. She talked with them in Bengali and learned that the child's name was Babu, and she was eight years old. This woman is his mother, suffering from tuberculosis. The other two children in the shack are his brothers and sisters. Mother Teresa can only give them the vitamin tablets she brought. The woman was very grateful and took her hand and said, "There is a sick old woman here. Please see her. " Mother Teresa was shocked when she heard this sentence: Why do poor people have such kind hearts? I am sick and care about others! Mother Teresa, this is a name that touches and respects everyone. This is a woman who makes people feel warm. There is no secular standard to describe her, and her mother-like smile makes you have a dependent heart. Mother Teresa, a silent actress, bears the sufferings of the whole world with her thin body.

When she chose to appease the sufferings of the world as her life goal, it was doomed that she had nothing to do with jewelry appearance and romantic nights. But the world is warm because of her. She expresses herself with a pure and kind heart.

193 1, she chose "Teresa" as her Christian name. Teresa originated from the name of a Spanish saint. Mother Teresa set her goal at 18 years old and never doubted it again.

She is by no means the kind of person who holds the hand of the poor and smiles at the camera. She stayed away from the media and really went deep into the edge of disaster and poverty.

From 65438 to 0948, she led the establishment of a charity to take care of the dying and homeless. 1950, she founded Mafeng City and actively helped leprosy patients.

1979 Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize, but her achievements far exceeded the secular definition. It is hard to say what she did. Wherever she goes, everyone is calling her name.

1997 Mother Teresa finished her duties in the world and left us. But on her tombstone, there is such a sentence engraved, which reads as if she is right beside us:

Love others as I once loved you, and love others as I once loved you. The best day is today.

The easiest thing is to make mistakes.

The biggest obstacle is fear.

The biggest mistake is to give up on yourself.

The root of all evil is selfishness.

The best leisure activity is work.

The worst setback is frustration.

The best teachers are children.

The first thing is communication.

The happiest thing is to help others.

The biggest drawback is bad temper. 197 1 year, Pope Pope Paul VI awarded Mother Teresa the "Pope Pope John XXIII Peace Prize". 1975 albert schweitzer international prize was also awarded to her; 1985 us presidential medal of freedom; 1994 US Congressional Gold Medal; 1996 165438+1October16 honorary citizen of the United States; There are also many honorary degrees from universities.

The most important 1979 Nobel Peace Prize was also awarded to her. At that time, she refused the award banquet and bonus. The media asked her, "What can we do to promote world peace?" . She replied, "Go home and love your family." 1983 Mother Teresa suffered her first heart attack while visiting Pope John Paul II in Rome. 1989 when she had a second heart attack, she received an artificial heart. 199 1 After returning from a trip to Mexico, she got pneumonia and her health deteriorated. So she submitted her resignation to Ji Bo on the grounds that she could no longer take care of patients all day like other nuns. In the secret ballot of the monastery, other nuns and monks voted for Mother Teresa to stay in Ji Bo and lead them.

On March 1997 and March 13, she decided to quit the Ji Bo Association because her health deteriorated again. In April, Mother Teresa fell and hurt her collarbone. He had a heart transplant in August, but his health didn't improve. On September 5 of the same year, he died at the age of 87. Mother Teresa left 4,000 nuns in 123 countries, more than 654.38+million volunteers and 6 10 charity work. India held a state funeral for her. Christopher hitchens, a British writer, wrote a monograph on Mother Teresa, entitled "Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice". He said, "What you know about Mother Teresa is not partially false, but totally false." There are the following accusations against Mother Teresa in the book:

Kolkata, the Indian city where Mother Teresa serves, is a hell on earth: in fact, it is not. Kolkata is a modern big city, and most articles about Mother Teresa exaggerate the poverty in Kolkata. Mother Teresa devoted her life to Calcutta: otherwise, Mother Teresa spent most of her time in the Vatican or visited other countries, and rarely in Calcutta. Mother Teresa's charitable organizations have helped countless poor people: otherwise, although Mother Teresa received many donations, the money was rarely used for the poor. Chatterjee's "Mother Teresa: The Final Judgment" lists in detail the major Indian disasters in the past few decades, and Mother Teresa's organization almost completely ignored these disasters. In an interview, Mother Teresa mentioned the orphanages and shelters she runs ... and so on. These institutions are often fabricated by nuns, but they don't exist at all. Where did all those donations go? No one knows, because Mother Teresa's church is the only charity in India that doesn't disclose its accounts. There is no doubt that a lot of money has been spent on expanding the church. There is no ambulance in Mother Teresa's sanatorium, but her sister has a car to attend the prayer meeting. Many people who donated money to Mother Teresa thought that the money they donated was used to buy medical equipment, build an entire hospital, or hire doctors, but it was not. Although the nun's reputation was at its peak, her nursing home still used the most unprofessional equipment. Mother Teresa is a selfless humanitarian: on the contrary, she is a paranoid and cruel fundamentalist. Mother Teresa has an unhealthy worship of "pain". She believes that suffering is the way to get close to the most direct God. Therefore, the "sanatorium" she runs is not used to treat the poor, but to make them die in pain. Mother Teresa sanatorium doesn't have any modern medical equipment. All the staff are nuns without medical training. They use unsterilized syringes, do not use any painkillers, and do not intend to cure anyone. Many patients died in the most painful circumstances because nuns banned the use of painkillers. Mother Teresa's only concern is preaching. She often baptizes Muslims against the wishes of patients. Chatterjee's book details that Mother Teresa doesn't want patients to stay in her nursing home, even in a life-and-death situation. Mother Teresa has supreme wisdom: Mother Teresa lives in an imaginary world, divorced from reality. She strongly opposes abortion and birth control, and the degree of stubbornness can only be described by the word stupid. Mother Teresa performed miracles and was canonized by the Catholic Church: the so-called miracles were later proved to be forged. Christophe Higgins, a famous atheist and anti-religious journalist, believes that the purpose of Mother Teresa's organization is to advocate suffering because of faith, not to help people in need. At a press conference of 198 1, a reporter asked, "Are you teaching the poor to endure suffering?" Mother Teresa replied: "I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their fate and share the pain with the suffering Christ." I think the suffering of the poor will be more helpful to the world. "

Chatterjee said that Mother Teresa appeared as a "helper of the poor" and misled the public. In her biggest shelter, there are only two or three hundred people. Another puritan charity in Calcutta, the Church of God, distributed18,000 free meals every day, far exceeding the sum of all the shelters of Mother Teresa.

Chatterjee said that many organizations of Mother Teresa only preach and don't do any charity activities. For example, in Papua New Guinea, eight facilities did not accommodate anyone, and all the funds were used for missionary work.