One Mr. Chatterjee was a richman of Calcutta. He used to frequent Mother’s Home ‘Nirmal Hridaya’ where he tried to be useful by playing with children and teaching them letters. Whenever possible he would help Mother financially as well.One day, his darling grandson fell ill. It was a serious malady. An immediate operation had been […]

As Missionaries of Charity was growing fast and earning international fame, more and more volunteers were joining the mission to become Sisters. They included foreigners. Mother Teresa was very motherly to the Sisters as she knew that those girls had come to her leaving their homes and dear ones. The Missionaries of Charity must become

Mother Teresa’s search for a place to put up terminally ill patients was still on. She badly needed one as it had become her wont to pick up sick from footpaths and roadsides.The problem had become acute. Mother had no money for the rent of a big roof. In sheer desperation she decided to try

The monsoon had arrived. Rains were coming down off and on.On one such morning, Mother and Sister Agnes saw a heap of rags lying on the wet foot path on the opposite side. On closer examination they discovered that the heap infact was a sick woman.Mother and Sister hired a rickshaw and took the woman

By and by Mother Teresa was getting some support and cooperation from others besides the monetary help. It is the story of fifties. She still was far away from being able to take up large projects.She was still operating from her two room Moti Jheel space.One day, a family abandoned a woman at her door

Missionaries of Charity then grew fast. More and more Sisters joined it as its dedicated service to the poorest, the sickest, abandoned and the orphans earned it fame. It went on adding new branches and homes as donations kept coming at healthy rate.The time was passing at its natural pace. A lot of things were

Mother Teresa was feeling that she would need help as her work was gaining momentum and she was more determined than before.She remembered that there used to be a girl in her class when she was a teacher and then principal of St. Mary High School of the Convent who was unusually enthusiastic about social

In the month of February 1948 Mother Teresa shifted her own residence.She had found a small room at 14, Creek Lane on the third floor. The house was owned by one Mr. Michael Gomez. Mother Teresa had not much to fill the room with.All she had was a wooden box with little inside namely, a

Back in Calcutta, Mother Teresa want to meet Father Henry at her old Convent.She needed his help. She spoke, “Father, I want to start my work by opening a school for slum kids. Moti Jheel area slums are said be where the poorest of the poor live. So, that is where I want to be.

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.