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Mother Teresa: The Living Saint - Paper

Mother Teresa: The Living Saint

I first became interested in Mother Teresa when I became aware of
her death. Interesting we seen to not notice what we have until it is
taken away from us. I found that what we had was enormous. We were
blessed with a true lover that showed this to us through her devout service
to the poorest of the poor.
Teresa was so great that during he life some people considered her
to be a living saint. This alone tell you how special this tiny nun was.
So what make her so grand? How could one women have such an impact on the
world? I will further explore these question in my report and attempt to
answer then as fully as possible.
Mother Teresa started of as many of us do with a pretty ...

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Teresa said she received another call
from God to serve the poor who live in the streets. Pope Pious XII soon
granted Mother Teresa permission to leave her duties as an independent nun
to fulfill her calling. So she began to share her life with the poor, sick
and the hungry in Calcutta. Mother Teresa with her new positon established
a congregation called Missionaries of Charity. She began her work by
teaching the children of the streets how to read. Mother Teresa also
began to care for lepers. In 1965, Pope Paul VI desited to expand Mother
Teresa's Order to other countries by put the Missionaries of Charity under
the control of the Papacy and gaving more authorization to Mother Teresa.
In 1979 she won the Nobel Prize in Peace Prize for the life long
dedication to the poor and for being the saint to the slums.
Over the last two decades, Mother had suffered from heart problems.
She suffered a heart attack during a 1983 visit with Pope John Paul II.
She suffered ...

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Added: 9/25/2004 04:52:13 PM
Category: Biographies
Type: Free Paper
Words: 536
Pages: 2

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