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August 27, 1910

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Agnes was baptized

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August 26, 1910

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Agnes was born in Skopje

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November 16,1916

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Agatha’s confirmation

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1919

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Nicolas (her father) was poisoned and died of a haemorrahage, Italian business partner didn’t support family

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September 26, 1928

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Agatha left Skopje station to Dublin then arrived at Calcutta January 6, 1928

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From the time agatha was 14…

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…. The letter reports father Jambrekovic read from missionaries inspired agatha to leave and join the sisters.

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May 23, 1929

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Agatha was made a Loreto novice with blessing form archbishop fernidad perier

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Agatha named after…

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St Therese of lisieux

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May 29,1931

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Teresa took temporary vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and began teaching at Loreto school at Darjeeling

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After her novitiate Teresa….

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Was sent to Loreto entally in Calcutta to teach at st Mary’s Bengali intermediate school

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May 24, 1937

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Teresa took her final vows

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In 1944….

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Teresa became principal of st Mary’s

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July 12,1944

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Teresa met father Exem

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August 16,1946

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The riot incident

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September 10,1946 explain what happened that day

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Teresa’s second vocation inspiration day! On her way to a retreat in Darjeeling by train she recited the rosary and read chapter 25 verse 31 in the gospel of st. Mathew in the bible

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The famous verse that inspired tress also inspired…

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Tolstoy and Ruskin, induced st Francis of Assisi, encouraged father Damian to work in Molokai, and Albert Schweitzer to work amongst the poor in Africa

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Teresa’s plan to leave the convent and follow her vocation was denied by…

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Mother superior and archbishop perier and she was given no encouragement from father Exem

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Mother superior transferred Teresa to what two different place to diminish her ideas of her vocation?

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First to Asansol, then back to Calcutta and finally to take care of the daughters of st Anne

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Father Exem brought who to try and convince archbishop to allow Teresa to go on her vocation

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Father Henry

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Archbishop and mother superior finally gave Teresa to write to where for permission to leave the convent?

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Rome

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When did archbishop perier send the letter to pope pius XII

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February 1948

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August 18,1948

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The day Teresa officially closed on the Loreto convent

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After leaving the convent…

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Teresa was admitted into holy family hospital for medical training

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After leaving to Patna on August 8, Teresa gets her symbolic…

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White sari for holiness, with able border for the holy mother, and a crucifix tied on

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What happened to Teresa in 1948?
Became a citizen of India
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Why did Teresa travel to Mothijhil?
To cure the slums and teach the children
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What things happened to her makeshift classroom?
Mysteriously given a blackboard,chalk, table, and chairs, then 100 rupees for her classroom from father vicar of oark circus
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February 28 1949
Teresa moved into house on 14 greek lane with no rent from mr. Gomez and accompaniment from Mabel
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Who moves in with Teresa to help her?
Her old student Subhashini Das
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March 19, 1949
(Feast of St. Joseph) Subhashini came back to help Teresa with the poor after being sent away
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When was the first nirmal hriday provisionally granted and opened?
Provisionally granted to Teresa on August 15 ,1952 but opened on August 22 (the feast day of the immaculate heart of Mary)
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What happens after Teresa starts her work at nirmal hriday?
Hindu group try to evict her for taking up the inn but discontinue after seeing her service
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Further into her time at nirmal....
Again people want to evict her but can't until she finds another suitable place
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Who makes the miracle bbc documentary called?
Malcolm Muggeridge makes "Something Beautiful for god" and a book with the same title
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October 1950- during the feast of the most holy rosary....
Rome approved of the congregation of the missionaries of charity
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Due to 24 members and 5 new candidates a new house was needed by 1953. How did Teresa get it?
Teresa bought a house with a loan from perier, the building was sold over from dr. Islam after he consulted with his god "Allah"
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When and where do the sisters move into their new home?
The 27 sister move in on circular road on February 1953
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What day does the Vatican recognize the missionaries of charity's suffering co-workers?
March 26, 1969 (Jacqueline becomes link between sister and suffering)
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September 23 1955
First Shishu Bhavan was established near the mother house by sisters
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September 1957
Archbishop perier inaugurated the mobile leprocy clinic (US ambulance and 10,000 rupees for medical supplies), And The sisters were stoned for for trying to open a leprocy rehabilitation center in Mothijhil
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Once again Teresa was stopped from making a leprocy center by Another councillor....
He ended up getting leprocy and Teresa helped him!
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October 1960
Brother Christu Das and Mariya Das begin to improve the titlagarh leprocy center created by the sisters after it was given a mile long strip of land along the railroad
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March 25 1963
Archbishop blessed inauguration of the brothers of charity
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In 1064 who joined the bros of charity eventually becoming the superior of the congregation
Ian travers-ball (Brother Andrew)
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April 1973
ICI donates land for Premdan
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What happened in 1979?
A festival for kids held by the sisters and attended by Jyothi and 12,000 kids in the stadium in the international year of the child
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When did Teresa gain permission to open more branches of the congregation?
1960
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1962
Teresa gained highest civilian honors. The padmashree of India and later won the desikothama award from bharathi university
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What year did Teresa receive the Nobel peace prize?
1979
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September 8 1989
Teresa admitted to Woodlands nursing home in Calcutta after having a heart attack
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1981
Drought in Ethiopia happened, Teresa asked president Reagan for relief
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October 28 1971
First American institution opened in NY
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December 25,1985
Sisters opened hospice for people affected by aids in manhattan called gift of love
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In June 13, 1986 Teresa met with Reagan to discuss more gifts of love that eventually opened in...
Washington, D.C. And San Francisco in June 1988 and Denver 1989
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What conflict happened to Teresa in 1970?
Her mother wanted to see her children and was given an invitation from the Red Cross but the communist government didn't allow her to see her mom, brother unable to come
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When did Teresa's mom die?
July 12, 1972
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When did Aga die?
March 2, 1991
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Communist government....
Finally allowed Teresa to reopen and restore churches
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September 1991
Albania re-established relationships with the Vatican after not since 1945
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May 1991
Typhoon and flood in Bangladesh that killed 300,000
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Pope John Paul II gave Teresa what?
The Cassadona Di Maria
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What started in 1979?
Priests began to work with the charity
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In 1980 Teresa flew from the Bronx to Rome to address how many bishops assembled for the 1980 Synod
202 bishops
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June 2 1983
Teresa collapsed and woke up in a Salvatur Mundi hospital while in at the convent of San Gregorio. Dr. Vincenzo bilotti found Teresa had. Heart problems.
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Ignoring her back aches Teresa visited what following countries?
Germany, Poland,Belgium, USA
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October 31 1984
Indira Gandhi was assassinated
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Teresa had to cancel a flight to what country because of her heart problems but what did she do instead?
Japan she opened nirmal hriday in Hing kong and opened houses in Macao, S.Korea, Hong Kong
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September 3 ,1989- what symptoms caused Teresa enough worries to ask for the last sacrement?
High fever, nausea,chest pain, fatigue
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September 8
Teresa put back in woodlands nursing home
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October 14 and November 29, 1989
Released from hospital then admitted for a more permanent peacemaker (discharged dec. 11)
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April 11, 1990
Holy father accepted Teresa's resignation but by the end of the year was re-elected
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November 1987
Brother Andrew left congregation and brother Geoff took his place
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1981 Teresa founded what group
Youth co-workers group
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1991 what happened that made her ill?
After visiting George bush sr. and the final vows of 27 sisters Teresa caught the flu in LA going to Tijuana, Mexico
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On April 1,1996 she was admitted into woodlands again for breaking what?
Her collarbone
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In August 1993 Teresa was sent to Delhi for an award but was suffering from a fever, vomiting, congestion, and breathlessness and was sent where?
All-Indian Institute of Medical Science
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September 16 1993 Father Van Exem did what?
He wrote his final letter before dying 4 days later
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Who was Teresa's trip assistant in her later years?
Sister Nirmala
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What miracle happened of Teresa's 86 birthday?
She was able to breathe without a respirator
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Who was elected Teresa's successor on March 13, 1997?
Sister Nirmala was chosen from 123 exhorted delegates
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When did Mother Teresa die? How?
September 5,1997, woke up and attended usual work but she was having pains and conversed with Jesus many people come to be with her in her pains and as she dies a blackout occurs.
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What people were with her on the day of her death?
Sister Gertrude, sister Nirmala, brother Geoff, Dr. Woodland, Father Hansel, met film star Shasi Kala

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