Mother Teresa

Missionaries of charityDuring her stay at Darjeeling, while recuperating her mind worked out her future plan. The idea of the ‘Missionaries of Charity’, an organisation dedicated to the care of the poorest, sick and abandoned took shape in Mother Teresa’s mind.She returned to Calcutta with a new resolve and clear cut plan.Without wasting time she […]

The similar toy train to Darjeeling experience had provided inspiration to one other great person of foreign origin who had made India her home. She had also taken the same train for regaining health. It was Swami Vivekananda’s German disciple Sister Nivedita. She had too made her resolves to serve the poor and sick while

By the time Gonxha became 12 years old. Her mind was made up to follow in the foot steps of Florence Nightingale and St. Francis alias Cisco of Asissi. Her life’s mission would be the selfless service and the care of sick and the poorest. And unwittingly she had chosen the place of her work.

Even before Gonxha entered teens, a resolve to serve the poor and sick of a far off country called India began to germinate in her mind.The seeds of its was sown in young Agnes ‘Gonxha’ by the letters from Yugoslav Jesuit missionaries working in India at Kursiong and Darjeeling missions. Their letters used to be

In the early part of the 20th century, there lived a family in the city of Skopaze of Albania. The head of the family Nicholas was a reasonable prosperous building contractor cum grocer of the city. He had built many houses and buildings in the city. A theatre built by him still stands intact there.