Teresa House

Mother Teresa of Kolkata (Calcutta)  August 26, 1910 - September 5, 1997

Mother Teresa was a popular choice for a House icon amongst staff and students at school.  Mother Teresa (born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu )  was a Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for her humanitarian work. For over forty years, she ministered to the needs of the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying of Kolkata (Calcutta ).  As the Missionaries of Charity grew under Teresa's leadership, they expanded their ministry to other countries. By the 1970s she had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and  campaigner for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God  by Malcolm Muggeridge.  Following her death she was beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.

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