PERSONALITY OF THE DAY: MOTHER TERESA.

Mother Teresa MC who is popularly famous across the Catholic Cathedral as Saint Teresa of Calcutta lived between 26 August 1910 to 5 September 1997, she was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic sister and missionary.

She was birthed in Skopje, which is now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia, at that time an aspect of the Kosovo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. right at the end of residing in Macedonia for eighteen years she relocated to Ireland and later to India, a place where she resided for a good number of her life.

Towards the year 1950, Teresa started the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious gathering which had more than 4,500 nuns and was operational in 133 nations as at the year 2012.

The gathering oversaw homes for folks dying as a result of HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; dispensaries and movable clinics; children's- and family-counselling programmes; orphanages, and schools. volunteers, who take vows of chastity, poverty, and compliance, also confess a fourth vow: to present "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor".

Teresa was handed a couple of honours, plus the 1962 Ramon Magsaysay Peace Prize and 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. She was canonised (recognised by the church as a saint) on 4 September 2016, and the anniversary of her death (5 September) is her feast day.

A controversial image at thr time of her life and after her death, Teresa was well-beloved by lots and lots of people for her charitable toil. She was appraised and criticised for her fight against abortion, and spoken ill of for poor conditions in her houses for the dying. Her authorised biography was penned down by Navin Chawla and in print in 1992, and she has been the focus of films and other books.

Teresa believed and in her own words said, "By blood, I am Albanian. By citizenship, an Indian. By faith, I am a Catholic nun. As to my calling, I belong to the world. As to my heart, I belong entirely to the Heart of Jesus." Fluent in five various languages – Bengali, Albanian, Serbian, English and Hindi – she made intermittent journeys outside India for charitable purposes.

In the year 1982, towards the height of the Siege of Beirut, Teresa saved thirty seven children locked up in a front-line hospice by acheiving a temporary cease-fire relating the Israeli army and Palestinian guerrillas. Armed with the Red Cross workers, she span through the war zone to the hospice to save the tender patients.

At the time the Eastern Europe saw more honesty in the defferred 1980s, Teresa streched her hard works to Communist countries which had rejected the Missionaries of Charity.

She began lots of projects, unafffected by condemnations of her stands contrary to abortion and divorce: "No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work." She went to Armenia at the time of the 1988 earthquake and met with Nikolai Ryzhkov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers.

Teresa went to assist the hungry in Ethiopia, radiation victims at Chernobyl and earthquake victims in Armenia. at the end of 1991 she went back to Albania for the basic time.