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1910
She was born in Skopje, a former city of Albania, now part of the Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. -
1919
His father died, and his mother took the reins of the family by putting a business in order to continue with the education of their children. -
1928
At age 18, he entered the order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto of India, based in Ireland. There he received the name of Sister Maria Teresa (by Saint Teresa of Lisieux). -
1929
She started his journey to India, arrived in Calcutta, and began his novitiate. -
1931
I performed his vows of poverty, chastity and obedience as a nun. -
1937
Sister Teresa made her perpetual profession, then, as she said herself, in "wife of Jesus" for "all eternity." From that moment on she was called Mother Teresa. For 20 years I taught at Santa Maria College in Calcutta, India. -
1946
After God's call, he put himself at the service of the poorest. -
1948
She left the convent, carrying a white sari decorated with blue margins substituting the habit of Loreto. His new congregation was called Missionaries of Charity. -
1950
She was trained as a nurse for three months in Patna with the medical Missionary Sisters of North America and began helping people who were sick with leprosy. -
1952
She inaugurated the first home for the dying in Calcutta. -
1962
She won the award, "Padma Shiri", granted by the Indian government. -
1963
Pope Paul VI placed the congregation of the Missionaries of Charity under the control of the papacy and I authorized mother Teresa to expand the religious order in other countries. -
1969
She won the "Jawaharlal Nehru Award", for International understanding. -
1979
She was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. -
1984
She founded the Missionary Fathers of charity. -
1992
An Indian citizen wrote his official biography. -
1993
She received the "Rajiv Gandhi Sadbhavana" award -
1995
She received the artistic award "Dayawati Modi". -
1997
She resigned as chief of the Missionaries of Charity. She died in Calcutta at 87 years old. The government of India granted him the honor of holding a state funeral and his body was buried in the mother house of the Missionaries of Charity. His grave quickly became a place of pilgrimage and prayer. -
2003
Mother Teresa was beatified by Pope John Paul II.