A biography of the nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity to work with the destitute and dying, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979.
The author has known Mother Teresa for thirteen years and has drawn on this experience, letters and private conversations to write this biography__
Examines the life of a Catholic woman, teacher, and missionary who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 for aiding the poor and dying in India.
Little is known, however, about her own spiritual heights or her struggles. This collection of letters she wrote to her spiritual advisors over decades sheds light on Mother Teresa's interior life.
Blessed Mother Teresa
Born a humble girl in what is now Albania, Agnes Bojaxhiu lived a charitable life.
A biography of Mother Teresa, born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Macedonia, from her childhood to her death in 1997.
Amid the slums of Calcutta, Mother Teresa offered a comforting smile, consoling arms, soothing hands, a look that gave dignity, tears of compassion, and the light of Jesus in the darkness of great poverty.
"Stay very close to Our Lady. If you do this, you can do great things for God and the good of people." -- Mother Teresa of Calcutta As it was for Mother Teresa, so it can be for the rest of us.
These stories reveal a humorous, gifted, wise and arresting woman who has a message of real hope for our time. It's the life story of one of the most important women of the 20th century as it's never been told before.
Whatever you thought you knew -- about God, about life, about the world -- Mother Teresa's extraordinary message will take you deeper still!