She was given the honor of a state funeral by the Government of India and her body was buried in the Mother House of the Missionaries of Charity. "Archbishop: Mother Teresa underwent exorcism". [20], According to a biography by Joan Graff Clucas, Teresa was in her early years when she was fascinated by stories of the lives of missionaries and their service in Bengal; by age 12, she was convinced that she should commit herself to religious life. [35] The Bengal famine of 1943 brought misery and death to the city, and the August 1946 Direct Action Day began a period of Muslim-Hindu violence. [14][15] She was baptised in Skopje, the day after her birth. After making her First Profession of, Vows in May 1931, Sister Teresa was assigned to the Loreto Entally community in Calcutta and taught at St. Mary’s School for girls. The Decree of Praise granted to the Congregation by Pope Paul VI in February 1965 encouraged her to open a house in Venezuela. He said that he had refused to give the Vatican the name of a doctor who would certify that Monica Besra's healing was a miracle. This spirit later inspired the Lay Missionaries of Charity. The Roman Catholic cathedral in Pristina, Kosovo, is named in her honour. But there was another heroic side of this great woman that was revealed only after her death. Meg Greene, Mother Teresa: A Biography, Greenwood Press, 2004, page 18. [145] Dr. Ranjan Mustafi, who told The New York Times he had treated Besra, said that the cyst was caused by tuberculosis: "It was not a miracle ... She took medicines for nine months to one year. "Medicine cured 'miracle' woman – not Mother Teresa, say doctors". Teresa received a number of honors, including the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She said, 'I'm not a social worker. biographie de Mère Teresa. For other uses, see, Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910–1997), Muggeridge (1971), chapter 3, "Mother Teresa Speaks", pp. Locke, Michelle (22 March 2007). [96] Muggeridge later converted to Catholicism.[97]. [172], On 5 September 2017, St. Teresa Cathedral, the first Roman Catholic cathedral named in Teresa's honor, was consecrated in Kosovo. Members take vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, and also profess a fourth vow – to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor."[9]. [But] as for me, the silence and the emptiness is so great, that I look and do not see – listen and do not hear – the tongue moves [in prayer] but does not speak. Mère Teresa 1910 - 1997 Religieuse et sainte albanaise, prix Nobel de la paix en 1979, connue pour son action personnelle caritative et la fondation d'une congrégation religieuse, les Missionnaires de la Charité (créée en 1950) qui l'accompagnent et suivent son exemple. "[112], Barbara Smoker of the secular humanist magazine The Freethinker criticised Teresa after the Peace Prize award, saying that her promotion of Catholic moral teachings on abortion and contraception diverted funds from effective methods to solve India's problems. Her efforts quickly caught the attention of Indian officials, including the prime minister. "[139] She wrote, "It is only by mental prayer and spiritual reading that we can cultivate the gift of prayer. She found it in prayer and in the silent contemplation of Jesus Christ, his Holy Face, his Sacred Heart. She chose to be named after Thérèse de Lisieux, the patron saint of missionaries;[29][30] because a nun in the convent had already chosen that name, she opted for its Spanish spelling (Teresa). "Mother Teresa Laid to Rest After Multi-Faith Tribute". Orr, David (10 May. Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, spent several months in Patna to receive basic medical training at Holy Family Hospital and ventured into the slums. 2003). De Mère Teresa de Calcutta on s’en souvient toujours comme de quelqu’un dotée d’une volonté infatigable d’aider les derniers, les défavorisés, les pauvres. Mère Teresa, de son vrai nom Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu est une religieuse catholique d’origine albanaise naturalisée indienne après avoir été missionnaire en Inde. [144] In 2002 the Vatican recognised as a miracle the healing of a tumour in the abdomen of Monica Besra, an Indian woman, after the application of a locket containing Teresa's picture. To fail would have been to break the faith. Mother Teresa Day (Dita e Nënë Terezës), 19 October, is a public holiday in Albania. Aujourd’hui c’est une Sainte, source de dévotion dans le monde entier, et certainement une des figures les plus importantes de l’histoire moderne, prix Nobel pour la paix et reconnue par beaucoup d’autres titres. [101] Teresa's Albanian homeland gave her the Golden Honour of the Nation in 1994,[90] but her acceptance of this and the Haitian Legion of Honour was controversial. Célèbre comme: Fondateur des Missionnaires de … However, five weeks later her spiritual dryness returned. ” “ Come be My light , ” He begged her. Her tomb quickly became a place of pilgrimage and prayer for people of all faiths, rich and poor alike. Following a second attack in 1989, she received an artificial pacemaker. Although some sources state she was 10 when her father died, in an interview with her brother, the Vatican documents her age at the time as "about eight". [149][150] Because of the attacks on her, some Catholic writers called her a sign of contradiction. Over the course of the next weeks and months, by means of interior locutions and visions, Jesus revealed to her the desire of His heart for “victims of love” who would, alone .” He revealed His pain at the neglect of the poor, His sorrow at their ignorance of Him and His longing for their love. [80] Teresa's official biography, by Navin Chawla, was published in 1992. During the last years of her life, despite increasingly severe health problems, Mother Teresa continued to govern her Society and respond to the needs of the poor and the Church. D'origine albanaise, le prix Nobel de la paix 1979 avait découvert l'Inde à l'âge de 18 ans. By 1997, Mother Teresa’s Sisters numbered nearly 4,000 members and were established in 610 foundations in 123 countries of. Frank Newport (31 December 1999). [61] Accompanied by Red Cross workers, she travelled through the war zone to the hospital to evacuate the young patients. Even deep down ... there is nothing but emptiness and darkness. Biographie de Mère Teresa. "[49], She opened a hospice for those with leprosy, calling it Shanti Nagar (City of Peace). Qui était la patronne de notre paroisse ? [10][page needed] She later considered 27 August, the day she was baptised, her "true birthday". [104] In April 1976 Teresa visited the University of Scranton in northeastern Pennsylvania, where she received the La Storta Medal for Human Service from university president William J. It was an order. The decree on the miracle required for her canonization was approved on 17 December 2015 and she was canonized by Pope Francis on 4 September 2016. [53] Houses followed in Italy (Rome), Tanzania and Austria in 1968, and during the 1970s the congregation opened houses and foundations in the United States and dozens of countries in Asia, Africa and Europe. Références de Mère Teresa - Biographie de Mère Teresa Plus sur cette citation >> Citation de Mère Teresa (n° 158827) - - Ajouter à mon carnet de citations Notez cette citation : - Note moyenne : 4.63 /5 (sur 466 votes) La vie est une chance, saisis-la. Frank Newport, David W. Moore, and Lydia Saad (13 December 1999). Biographie de Mère Teresa, « Le Saint des Gouttières » Mère Teresa (26 Août, 5 1910-Septembre 1997) a fondé les Missionnaires de la Charité, un ordre catholique de religieuses se consacre à aider les pauvres. [134] According to James Langford, these doubts were typical and would not be an impediment to canonisation. [142], After Teresa's death in 1997, the Holy See began the process of beatification (the second of three steps towards canonisation) and Kolodiejchuk was appointed postulator by the Diocese of Calcutta. She left the school. In England, the footage was found to be extremely well-lit and Muggeridge called it a miracle of "divine light" from Teresa. Mère Teresa de Calcutta (1910-1997) “ Par mon sang, The first Missionaries of Charity home in the United States was established in the South Bronx area of New York City, and by 1984 the congregation operated 19 establishments throughout the country. "[78], Teresa was first recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier, receiving the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969. [173], This article is about Mother Teresa of Calcutta, Catholic nun and saint. [50] The Missionaries of Charity established leprosy-outreach clinics throughout Calcutta, providing medication, dressings and food. Teresa then expanded the congregation abroad, opening a house in Venezuela in 1965 with five sisters. [14][17] He was born in Prizren (today in Kosovo), however, his family was from Mirdita (present-day Albania). [72], On 13 March 1997 Teresa resigned as head of the Missionaries of Charity, and she died on 5 September. [31], Teresa took her solemn vows on 14 May 1937 while she was a teacher at the Loreto convent school in Entally, eastern Calcutta. In March 1997 she blessed her newly-elected successor as Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity and then made one more trip abroad. She went out to serve humanity with two saris with a blue border. She spent her life opposing the only known cure for poverty, which is the empowerment of women and the emancipation of them from a livestock version of compulsory reproduction. En 1979, elle a reçu le prix Nobel de la paix. Mother Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu[6] (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian: [aˈɲɛzə ˈɡɔndʒɛ bɔjaˈdʒiu]; 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta,[7] was an Albanian-Indian[4] Roman Catholic nun and missionary. '"[125] Although Hitchens thought he was the only witness called by the Vatican, Aroup Chatterjee (author of Mother Teresa: The Untold Story) was also called to present evidence opposing Teresa's beatification and canonisation;[126] the Vatican had abolished the traditional "devil's advocate", which served a similar purpose. [45], On 7 October 1950, Teresa received Vatican permission for the diocesan congregation, which would become the Missionaries of Charity. "Most Admired Men and Women: 1948–1998". She received a state funeral from the Indian government in gratitude for her service to the poor of all religions in the country. She felt that she should serve the poor by staying with them. According to Besra, a beam of light emanated from the picture and her cancerous tumour was cured; however, her husband and some of her medical staff said that conventional medical treatment eradicated the tumour. CNN Staff, "Mother Teresa: A Profile", retrieved from CNN online. Teresa's fame may be partially attributed to Malcolm Muggeridge's 1969 documentary, Something Beautiful for God, and his 1971 book of the same name. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life. [95] Other crew members said that it was due to a new type of ultra-sensitive Kodak film. [44] Teresa wrote in her diary that her first year was fraught with difficulty. Nearly two years of testing and discernment passed before Mother Teresa received permission to begin. "You have only to say the word and all that will be yours again", the Tempter kept on saying. After meeting Pope John Paul II for the last time, she returned to Calcutta and spent her final weeks receiving visitors and instructing her Sisters. Mother Teresa was a person of profound prayer and deep love for her religious sisters and her students and her twenty years in Loreto were filled with remarkable happiness. Hitchens and Chatterjee (author of The Final Verdict, a book critical of Teresa) spoke to the tribunal; according to Vatican officials, the allegations raised were investigated by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. He asked Mother Teresa to establish a religious community, Missionaries of Charity, dedicated to the service of the. the world. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. [119] It was said that the additional money might have transformed the health of the city's poor by creating advanced palliative care facilities. By the early 1960s, Mother Teresa began to send her Sisters to other parts of India. On 5 September Mother Teresa’s earthly life came to an end. [160], Teresa has been commemorated by museums and named the patroness of a number of churches. Jones, Alice & Brown, Jonathan (7 March 2007). [99] After her death, Teresa progressed rapidly on the road to sainthood. [105] She challenged an audience of 4,500 to "know poor people in your own home and local neighbourhood", feeding others or simply spreading joy and love,[106] and continued: "The poor will help us grow in sanctity, for they are Christ in the guise of distress". (2002) "Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910–1997)". The best result we found for your search is Teresa M Lamere age 60s in Plano, TX. [154][155] It was televised live on the Vatican channel and streamed online; Skopje, Teresa's hometown, announced a week-long celebration of her canonisation. A controversial figure during her life and after her death, Teresa was admired by many for her charitable work. She called her inner experience, “the darkness.” The “painful night” of her soul, which began around the time she started her work for the poor and continued to the end of her life, led Mother Teresa to an ever more profound union with God. crossroads of Balkan history. When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven, there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives and hurt my very soul. By citizenship, an Indian. The Sisters of Charity recite the prayer of Saint Francis every morning at Mass during the thanksgiving after Communion, and their emphasis on ministry and many of their vows are similar. [69] Her Missionaries of Charity grew from twelve to thousands, serving the "poorest of the poor" in 450 centres worldwide. [151] Teresa was beatified on 19 October 2003, and was known by Catholics as "Blessed". [37], On 10 September 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within the call" when she traveled by train to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annual retreat. Lay Catholics and non-Catholics were enrolled in the Co-Workers of Mother Teresa, the Sick and Suffering Co-Workers, and the Lay Missionaries of Charity. [81] In Kolkata, she is worshipped as a deity by some Hindus. Dès son plus jeune âge, elle a décidé de consacrer sa vie au service religieux. La dernière modification de cette page a été faite le 30 juin 2018 à 06:29. Banerjee, Sumanta (2004), "Revisiting Kolkata as an 'NRB' [non-resident Bengali]". [131] Teresa expressed grave doubts about God's existence and pain over her lack of faith: Where is my faith? poorest of the poor. They have also lived in Dallas, TX and Denver, CO. Teresa is related to Whitney A Lymer and Scott Lymer as well as 2 additional people. Drana raised her children firmly and lovingly, greatly influencing her daughter’s character and vocation. "[4] Fluent in five languages – Bengali,[59] Albanian, Serbian, English and Hindi – she made occasional trips outside India for humanitarian reasons. In 1950, Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation that had over 4,500 nuns and was active in 133 countries in 2012. The Mother Theresa Postgraduate and Research Institute of Health Sciences,[163] in Pondicherry, was established in 1999 by the government of Puducherry. It was soon followed by foundations in Rome and Tanzania and, eventually, on every continent. On August 17, 1948, she dressed for the first time in a white, blue-bordered sari and passed through the gates of her beloved Loreto convent to enter the world of the poor. Voici 10 moments-clés de la vie de « Sainte de Calcutta ». Benenate, Becky and Joseph Durepos (eds). Her authorized biography was written by Navin Chawla and published in 1992, and she has been the subject of films and other books. Mother Teresa (11 December 1979). I want you to pray for me – that I let Him have [a] free hand. Abonnez-vous http://bit.ly/inasociete INA SOCIETE retrace la vie de Mère Teresa, la soeur des pauvres de Calcutta. Yet her inspiration was not limited to those with religious vocations. Panke, Joan T. (2002), "Not a Sad Place". He asked Mother Teresa to establish a religious community, Missionaries of Charity, dedicated to the service of the poorest of the poor. [168] The Tamil Nadu government organised centenary celebrations honouring Teresa on 4 December 2010 in Chennai, headed by chief minister M Karunanidhi. Syro-Malabar Catholic, Syro-Malankara Catholic, Latin Catholic, Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church, Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Protestant denominations Retrouvez toutes les phrases célèbres de Mère Teresa parmi une sélection de + de 100 000 citations célèbres provenant d'ouvrages, d'interviews ou de discours. After meeting Pope John Paul II for the last time, she returned to Calcutta and spent her final weeks receiving visitors and instructing her Sisters. It also runs soup kitchens, dispensaries, mobile clinics, children's and family counselling programmes, as well as orphanages and schools. "[78] According to former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, "She is the United Nations. La meilleure citation de Mère Teresa préférée des internautes. “By blood, I am Albanian. According to Archbishop of Calcutta Henry Sebastian D'Souza, he ordered a priest to perform an exorcism (with her permission) when she was first hospitalized with cardiac problems because he thought she might be under attack by the devil. » President Pratibha Patil said, "Clad in a white sari with a blue border, she and the sisters of Missionaries of Charity became a symbol of hope to many – the aged, the destitute, the unemployed, the diseased, the terminally ill, and those abandoned by their families. Analysing her deeds and achievements, Pope John Paul II said: "Where did Mother Teresa find the strength and perseverance to place herself completely at the service of others? Meg Greene, Mother Teresa: A Biography, Greenwood Press, 2004, page 25. Through the darkness she mystically participated in the thirst of Jesus, in His painful and burning longing for love, and she shared in the interior desolation of the poor. [22], Teresa left home in 1928 at age 18 to join the Sisters of Loreto at Loreto Abbey in Rathfarnham, Ireland, to learn English with the intent of becoming a missionary; English was the language of instruction of the Sisters of Loreto in India. Pope Paul VI gave her the inaugural Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971, commending her work with the poor, display of Christian charity and efforts for peace,[98] and she received the Pacem in Terris Award in 1976. During the years of rapid growth the world began to turn its eyes towards Mother Teresa and the work she had started. Clark, David, (2002), "Between Hope And Acceptance: The Medicalisation Of Dying". [157][158] On 6 September 2017, about 500 people attended the Mass at a cathedral where Dominique Gomes, the local Vicar General,[159] read the decree instituting her as the second patron saint of the archdiocese. [120][121], One of Teresa's most outspoken critics was English journalist, literary critic and antitheist Christopher Hitchens, host of the documentary Hell's Angel (1994) and author of the essay The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice (1995) who wrote in a 2003 article: "This returns us to the medieval corruption of the church, which sold indulgences to the rich while preaching hellfire and continence to the poor. [126], Abortion-rights groups have also criticised Teresa's stance against abortion and contraception.[127][128][129]. [100] The United Kingdom and the United States bestowed a number of awards, culminating in the Order of Merit in 1983 and honorary citizenship of the United States on 16 November 1996. Agnès Gonxha (qui ne s’appelle pas encore Mère TERESA) a fréquenté l’école primaire du couvent, puis une école secondaire d’État. Teresa (Auteur), Mère Teresa (Auteur) 5 ( 1 ) Coups de cœur des libraires ( 1) « Il y a beaucoup de remèdes contre toutes sortes de maladies. [56], By 1997, the 13-member Calcutta congregation had grown to more than 4,000 sisters who managed orphanages, AIDS hospices and charity centers worldwide, caring for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless and victims of floods, epidemics and famine. Rajagopal MR, Joranson DE, and Gilson AM (2001), "Medical use, misuse and diversion of opioids in India". [84], Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, mayor of Kolkata from 2005 to 2010, said that "she had no significant impact on the poor of this city", glorified illness instead of treating it and misrepresented the city: "No doubt there was poverty in Calcutta, but it was never a city of lepers and beggars, as Mother Teresa presented it. Her response to Jesus’ plea, “Come be My light,” made her a Missionary of Charity, a “mother to the poor,” a symbol of compassion to the world, and a living witness to the thirsting love of God. [57] By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity numbered about 450 brothers and 5,000 sisters worldwide, operating 600 missions, schools and shelters in 120 countries. [18][19] Her mother may have been from a village near Gjakova. ", In Deus caritas est (his first encyclical), Pope Benedict XVI mentioned Teresa three times and used her life to clarify one of the encyclical's main points: "In the example of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta we have a clear illustration of the fact that time devoted to God in prayer not only does not detract from effective and loving service to our neighbour but is in fact the inexhaustible source of that service. Mother Teresa left a testament of unshakable faith, invincible hope and extraordinary charity. An Idiographic Application of Rational Choice Theory". The whole of Mother Teresa’s life and labor bore witness to the joy of loving, the greatness and dignity of every human person, the value of little things done faithfully and with love, and the surpassing worth of friendship with God. She received both prizes and attention “for the glory of God and in the name of the poor.”.