5th Sept : Death Anniversary of Saint Teresa of Calcutta
17th Death Anniversary of Saint Teresa of Calcutta on 5th September 2017
Thousands of faithfuls and nuns from Missionaries of Charity from across the city gathered at the Mother House, where Saint Teresa lived, to pay tribute to the late Roman Catholic nun on her 19th death anniversary.
Coming just a day after she was canonised by Pope Francis in the Vatican City, the death anniversary which is observed as a feast day by nuns of the order, had a special significance.
Her Birth: Born as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Albania in the year 1910, Mother Teresa’s family was financially sound until her father’s death.
Her family: Agnes left her home at the age of 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto in Ireland. Since then she never saw her mother and sister.
Vows to be a nun: Agnes vowed to be a nun in 1931 and chose to be called as Teresa after the Saint Teresa of Avila.
Admiration: The Catholic Church beatified Mother Teresa as Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in 2003 – years after her death. Albania’s international airport is named after Mother Teresa as the Aeroporti Nene Tereza.
Great work: Mother Teresa rescued 37 children from a frontline hospital war zone. While travelling, she carried leftover food from the airplane and gave it to the poor and hungry.
Sacrifice: Mother Teresa turned down the traditional Nobel Prize honour and instead requested funds of US$192,000 for the poor in India.
Achievements: Mother Teresa has received several awards for her charity work, one of which includes the Presidential Medal of Freedom from US President Ronald Reagan.
The legendary nun Mother Teresa passed on September 5, 1997 at 9:30 pm due to heart attack. Despite her death her noble deed is still being carried on by the Roman Catholic congregation she established. Today, Missionaries of Charity has more than 4500 sisters and operates in over 130 countries across the world.
Mother Teresa, world's most famous nun, will be elevated to sainthood today as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.
She was anything but a saint. She withheld pain killers from dying patients because she thought suffering was good.
http://all-that-is-interesting.com/mother-teresa-saint
Though Mother Theresa’s medical centers were meant to heal people, patients were subjected to conditions that often made them even sicker. In the same documentary, an Indian journalist compared Mother Teresa’s flagship location for “Missionaries of Charity” to photographs he had seen of Nazi Germany’s Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
“Workers washed needles under tap water and then reused them. Medicine and other vital items were stored for months on end, expiring and still applied sporadically to patients,” said Hemley Gonzalez, a noted humanitarian worker in Indoa, when describing the Missionaries of Charity location he briefly volunteered at.
“Volunteers with little or no training carried out dangerous work on patients with highly contagious cases of tuberculosis and other life-threatening illnesses. The individuals who operated the charity refused to accept and implement medical equipment and machinery that would have safely automated processes and saved lives.”
It wasn’t just a select few cynical journalists who criticized Mother Teresa’s hospice care, either. In her hospice care centers, Mother Teresa practiced her belief that patients only needed to feel wanted and die at peace with God — not receive proper medical care — and medical experts went after her for it.
In 1994, the British medical journal The Lancet claimed that medicine was scarce in her hospice centers and that patients received nothing close to what they needed to relieve their pain.
Doctors took to calling her locations “homes for the dying,” and such a name was warranted. Mother Teresa’s Calcutta home for the sick had a mortality rate of more than 40 percent. But in her view, this wasn’t a bad thing, as she believed that the suffering of the poor and sick was more of a glory than a burden.
“There is something beautiful in seeing the poor accept their lot, to suffer it like Christ’s Passion,” Mother Teresa said. “The world gains much from their suffering.”
When it came to her own suffering, however, Mother Teresa took a different stance. The ailing altruist received care for her failing heart in a modern American hospital.
The German magazine Stern estimated that only seven percent of the millions of dollars Teresa received was used for charity.
she Latin thousand die of starvation. Gave Millions to the Vatican
but not to the four people who needed it.
https://steemit.com/life/@liorout/first-day-at-college
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