Biography

26 Aug 1910 : Agnes Gonxha Beiaxhiu born(Mother Teressa), in Skopje in Macedonia, the youngest of three children of an Albanian family.

1928: At the age of 18 she entered the order of the sister of our lady of Loreto.She joined a religious order and took the name Mother Teressa.

1929: She arrived in Calcutta (now Kolkata,India) to teach at St.Mary's High school.While travelling in a train to Darjeeling to recover from suspected tuberculosis she said she received a message from God "to serve Him among the poorest of the poor". The rest is History.
 

24 May 1937
Takes final vows as a nun in Darjeeling

1947
Most important journey of her life to Darjeeling where she receives a call from Jesus to serve him among the poorest of poor and to live with them 

1948
Opens first slum school in Calcutta.
1950
Missionaries of Charity established.
1952
Opens Nirmal Hriday, or Pure heart, a home for dying

1962
Receives the Padmashri award for distinguished service -- her first award for her humanitarian work

1971
Pope John Paul VI awards Mother peace prize

1979
Gets the Nobel Peace Prize
1980
Awarded India's highest civilian honour Bharat Ratna.
1983
Has a heart attack while in Rome visiting Pope John Paul II Queen Elizabeth II awards Order of Merit in New Delhi

1985
Gets Medal of Freedom, the highest US civilian award

1986
Narrow escape in an air crash in Tanzania

1989
Suffers second heart attack; doctors implant pacemaker

1990
Wants to relinquish charge of Missionaries of Charity on account of poor health. But she is re-elected with only one dissenting vote -- her own.

1991
Suffers pneumonia in Mexico, and undergoes heart surgery in the United States.

1993
Breaks three ribs in fall in Rome Another surgery in Calcutta to clear a blocked heart vessel

 1996 Fractures her left collar bone and is hospitalised , 22 Aug Suffers heart failure, admitted to Calcutta`s Woodlands Nursing Home ,16 Sep Injures head in fall while getting out of bed; doctors detect spot on brain, 16 Nov Granted honorary American citizenship, 22 Nov,Taken to Woodlands Nursing Home with irregular heartbeat,29 Nov,Undergoes angioplasty surgery to remove two blockages in major coronary arteries

1997 13 March Sister Nirmala elected to succeed Mother Teresa as leader of Missionaries of Charity,

1997 16 May Arrives in Italy for a two-month tour and is given oxygen at Rome airport because of weariness,

1997 18 June Meets Princess Diana for fourth time at Missionaries of Charity residence in New York,

1997 5 Sept Mother dies following a heart attack at her religious order`s headquarters in Calcutta .

"The other day I dreamed that I was at the gates of heaven. And St. Peter said, 'Go back to Earth, there are no slums up here."