MOTHER TERESA
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Introduction
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Birth : 26 Aug, 1910, Albania-
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Education : Government School
in Albania
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Work : came to Kolkata 1928
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Founded Nirmal Hriday
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Life: modest, simple
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Dress of a sweeper
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Nobel Prize in 1979, Bharat
Ratna in 1980 for service to the poor
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"Angel of Peace?
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Death : 5th Sept, 1997
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State funeral.
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Mother Teresa |
Mother Teresa was an Albanian by chance but an Indian by choice. She was born in Albania on 26 Aug. 1910. She had her early education in a government school in her native village. She came to Kolkata and started her life as a nun in a convent school. She felt for the poor and set up the 'Nirmal Hriday' in Kolkata to help the homeless. The Mother led a very modest and simple life and used to dress as a female sweeper.
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Mother Teresa |
Her selfless service for the distressed drew the attention of the
world. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for peace in 1979. Next year she was
crowned with Bharat Ratna for her service to the suffering humanity. She was
received by the people as an Angel of Peace. The poor die 'a delicious death on
her lap’. She breathed her last on the 5th September, 1997. The poor around the
world are now orphaned. The Mother was given a State funeral in Kolkata in
presence of the Heads Of States of the World. People bade their Mother
farewells with tears in their eyes.
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